New York City sculptor Alex Gardega has erected a statue of a dog lifting its leg on the famous “Fearless Girl” statue across from Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” in an act of protest.

Mr. Gardega’s “Pissing Pug” went up Monday next to the “Fearless Girl” bronze statue, which defiantly stares down Arturo Di Modica’s “Charging Bull.” The statue of the girl was commissioned in March by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) to coincide with International Women’s Day.

Mr. Gardega called it “corporate nonsense.”

“It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull,” he told The New York Post. “That bull had integrity.”

The artist called the statue of the girl ‘corporate nonsense” https://t.co/mUI9pHN06L — New York Post (@nypost) May 30, 2017

Mr. Gardega said his dog statue is poorly made on purpose.

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” he said.

This is Alex Gardega, the man who added ‘pissing dog’ next to ‘Fearless Girl’



This is a misogynistic display regardless of what he says. pic.twitter.com/kr7IgSbmpX — Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) May 30, 2017

Mr. Gardega shared similar sentiments with Mr. Di Modica, who is suing SSGA for trademark and copyright infringement, The Post reported.

Mr. Di Modica — who erected the 7,100-pound bull without permission in front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989, before it was eventually moved to its current location in Bowling Green Park — said in March that “Fearless Girl” is a cheap marketing ploy that takes his piece out of context.

“That is not a symbol! That’s an advertising trick,” the Sicilian immigrant said at the time. “Women, girls, that’s great, but that’s not what that [my sculpture] is.”

“I put it there for art,” he said. “My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio has extended the permit for “Fearless Girl” to remain in place until February 2018.

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