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Chinese dissident artist Badiucao, of 35 years, Denunciation of repression
Politics in China and the censorship of Coronavirus in the country in its new
exhibition, newly opened in northern Italy.
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Chinese dissident artist Badiucao, of 35 years, denounces political repression in China and the censorship of coronavirus in the country in its new exhibition, newly opened in northern Italy.
Chinese dissident artist Badiucao, of 35 years, denounces political repression in China and the censorship of coronavirus in the country in its new exhibition, newly opened in northern Italy. AFP AFP
A torture chair transformed into a simple rocking chair, Posters with a teddy bear represented as a warrior and machine guns pointing to umbrella are some of the creations with which Chinese artist Badiuca mocks his country's propaganda and at the same time appropriates his codes.
The city of Brescia, In northern Italy, on Friday inaugurated the first individual exhibition of the well -known cartoonist and dissident, of 35 years and living in exile in Australia, thus challenging the official request of the Chinese regime to cancel it.
"Esas obras están "llenas de mentiras anti-chinas" y "ponen en peligro las relaciones de amistad entre China e Italia", China's embassy regretted in Rome in a letter sent 14 October to the Mayor's Office of Brescia.
Despite this, The city authorities, of 200.000 population, They did not give in: "Nadie, Neither the Mayor's Office of Brescia nor the citizens, pensaron en algún momento en cancelar la exposición", declared the attached mayor at AFP, Laura Castelletti, with signature tone.
Brescia, known for their archaeological remains, It has a long tradition for having hosted dissidents, painters and writers, en nombre de "la libertad artística", explained.
Among the last ones the artist Kurda Zehra Dogan has received is, "perseguida por el régimen turco" And that he presented his works there in 2019.
Badiucao, wretched beard, laughing eyes behind thick caregles, reconoció que estaba "muy feliz y orgulloso" de que "Brescia haya tenido el coraje de decir 'no' a China en defensa de los derechos fundamentales".
Titulada "China (non) It's vicin" ("China (no) está cerca"), in allusion to the title of a famous Italian film of the decade of 1960, The exhibition, Open to it 13 February, denounces political repression in the Asian giant and censorship applied to the pandemic of the Coronavirus, Two annoying themes for the Beijing regime.
– 'Amenazas de muerte' –
"Utilizo mi arte para mostrar las mentiras del gobierno chino, But also a tribute to the courage and intelligence of the Chinese, tidy, con un gobierno autoritario", Badiucao said in an interview with the AFP.
in 2018, The idea of making an exhibition in Hong Kong failed due to the pressure on the artist and his surroundings: "La policía de seguridad nacional llegó a intimidar a mi familia en Shanghái" y "amenazó con enviar agentes a la inauguración", told.
Among the satirical works exhibited in Brescia and that have caused the anger of Beijing are the famous mixed faces of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Carrie Lam, Hong Kong executive head, with which he wants to illustrate how the autonomy of the former British colony has eroded.
The Chinese Communist Party (PCC) "no tolera el poder de la creación, Think that all free artists are their enemies, por eso me odia tanto", He supports Badiucao, quien asegura que es blanco de "amenazas de muerte a diario en las redes sociales".
Another very controversial work are the most of sixty red watches, painted with the artist's own blood, and that according to him the watches that were delivered to the Chinese soldiers as a reward for their participation in the violent repression of the student manifestations of the student of the student 3 al 4 June 1989 In Tiananmen's Square.
– El 'Banksy chino' –
La exposición también rinde homenaje a "Tank Man", the strange white shirt character who faced the tanks, trying to stop its armed advance with two simple garbage bags, An image that went down in history as an emblem of repression in that country and that unleashed the international condemnation of the Chinese government.
For the dissident, nicknamed, In spite of, "el Banksy chino", no hay duda de que Pekín es también "responsable de la catástrofe que vive la humanidad" for having retained, According to him, Crucial information about virus origins.
If the Chinese government had listened to Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist who warned at the end of December 2019 About the appearance of a coronavirus in Wuhan, "se hubiera podido detener el virus en una etapa muy temprana", He supports Badiucao.
That doctor, un "mártir", dice, fue amonestado por la policía que lo acusó de "difundir rumores". Shortly after, In February of 2020, He died of Covid-19.
La exposición "no tiene la intención de ofender al pueblo chino, ni a la cultura ni a su civilización", The president of the Museos de Brescia Foundation stressed, Francesca Bazoli, A La Afp.
When exhibiting these works, "estamos apoyando la libertad de expresión", summarized.
Con AFP
