Artist Gianni Motti claims he has made a bar of soap out of excess lard belonging to Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, reports various European papers:

Mr. Berlusconi underwent liposuction at a Swiss clinic in 2004, and a clinic employee gave the discarded fat to Swiss artist Gianni Motti, a statement from Zurich’s Migros Museum of Contemporary Art said.

“The exhibition presents the work Mani Pulite (Clean Hands), a bar of soap which was probably made from the fat of Silvio Berlusconi,” Zurich’s Migros Museum of Contemporary Art said in a statement

The off-white soap, which is the size of a conventional bar, will be exhibited until November 28 in its first public display since being purchased by a private collector in 2005.

When the artwork was originally sold for $18,000, Motti told Weltwoche magazine:

“I came up with the idea of because soap is made of pig fat, and I thought how much more appropriate it would be if people washed their hands using a piece of Berlusconi.”

The clinic has consistently denied the artist’s claims about the origin of the excess blubber.

Motti earned notoriety in 1997 after occupying the seat of an Indonesian delegate during a UN human rights debate and prompting an interruption.