The Chinese want to ban the exhibition of an uncomfortable artist in Prague – Forum24
Communist China continues to dare to interfere in our country’s affairs, in which they have nothing to do. In this case, the Chinese tried to achieve the cancellation of the MADee IN CHINA exhibition in Prague with works by an uncomfortable Chinese artist.
Exhibition curator Michaela Šilpochová says: “The day before the exhibition, we were contacted by the Chinese embassy. They called me on my number, which is not publicly available. Representative of the embassy’s cultural department. She had a Chinese name and spoke Czech. She told me that they hoped the exhibition would not be possible. Because it affects their feelings and significantly damages relations between the two countries. She kept saying it over and over again. “
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The exhibition in DOX is called MADe IN CHINA and some exhibits are created, as is the case today in similar large exhibitions of living artists, directly for her, to the current situation in which the world is. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of works by a Chinese artist, an activist who (for reasons of generation grown up in communism fully understandable) performs under the pseudonym Badiucao. While certainly the Chinese have to map the whole family, it is generally better for your relatives in the atmosphere of today’s China if they do not have the same name as you, in this case an artist living in Australia. Undoubtedly, Chinese intelligence Badiucaa has mapped it, it is a rising star that raises high hopes in the art world worldwide. And it’s artistically engaged, because unfortunately there is a regime on most of our planet against which artists from that affected country simply have to speak out, there is no other way. This is called a categorical imperative, or – in Czech – a higher moral principle. In China today, it is not the epoch that is best expressed by a drawing of a grasshopper in Indian ink, but a dove associated with the faces of Putin and Li Kchechiang, the Chinese prime minister.
Badiucao is a third-year-old artist, he is fully connected with cyberspace with his work, he has established himself internationally mainly thanks to social networks. He opposes all forms of ideological or moral totalitarian control exercised by political power, opposes Chinese censorship and the manipulation of historical memory. Creates campaigns, larger posters in public places, illustrations exhibits online. His visual language of “socialist pop culture” sarcastically evokes communist propaganda, imitating its graphic style, colors and tones. But it fills their symbolism with the true content they have acquired. Which, of course, makes the comrades quite a bit, if not more so.
The exhibition is interdisciplinary, as is customary with today’s artists. Graphics, paintings and other creations have censorship as a topic of human rights violations and completely redundant, moreover brutally enforced covid lockdowns in China. He criticized the repression of dissent in We forcibly covered the year, fully in the media covidem, the coup), the Uighurs or the suppression of protests against the growing exercise of Chinese communist power in Hong Kong. The exhibition also includes works where Badiucao reflects the war in Ukraine.
Although I’m not an artist, I have some friends. So when Pavel Opočenský sent me this message, I first checked to see if it was an anecdote, and then my stomach heaved slightly. As a result of Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, we have forgotten that Russia is not the only entity that goes down our necks.
Chinese Communists: Cancel the exhibition!
I developed a feverish activity in an effort to push the information that I would like to write about the Forum, through a generation of my friends from the art world to the world of “people from art” of today’s generation, and at one o’clock in the afternoon the exhibition curator Miss Michaela Šilpochová called me. And she told me what’s in the article above.
The Chinese embassy, a representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, has already called to cancel the exhibition. Comrades in Prague, in the Czech Republic, dare to “arrange” someone, as they should or do not, or may or may not do an exhibition? The language code of Forum 24 does not allow me to specify where the individual from whom they fall is sent for similarly unsolicited advice. If such an employee commits a representative of a foreign country through such a fundamental indecency, it is absolute impudence. Chucpe, not respecting the elementary boundaries of others.
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Like a neighbor who lives above you rings the doorbell in the evening and explains that you can’t fry the steaks. He smells them and doesn’t smell him because he’s vegan. If the Chinese Communist Party needs to speak to the arts, let them have the Central Committee repainted in Beijing. It’s their meeting room. If I drop such a request in a foreign country, it is outrageous, as I last heard from Russia. One of Putin’s comrades called the attack on Ukraine a “disciplinary expedition” – as if Putin’s Russia were some kind of scumbag, a lord, and would have the power to advise or even rebuke the Ukrainians. The Chinese did exactly the same thing. We must speak out forcefully, diplomatically, and ask the Chinese side for an explanation and an apology.
I ask the curator if she will cancel the exhibition: “We will definitely not cancel the exhibition, we will start on time, and DOX will be on view until August 28.”
It starts on Thursday, May 12 at 5 p.m. And I think it’s important, despite Putin, not to forget the threat of the Chinese Communists. Extinct Russia is a threat only because of its nuclear weapons, China is a superpower. And it is important to remember that the two gentlemen that the exhibition presents belong to each other. Vladimir Putin and Li Kcheichiang. When I saw a picture of the charred body of a man who was murdered by the Chinese Communists in suppressing student storms – the events surrounding Tiananmen Square, I felt physically ill.
We must not leave the Chinese embassy’s attempt unanswered, just as in the case of Russia, the expansion of the Chinese Communists is boundless unless a tough and uncompromising dam is built against it from the outside. That is why I am asking the Prime Minister to summon the Chinese embassy to explain the Chinese embassy’s censorship attempt. And he sent her with his requirements for DOX exhibition dramaturgy exactly where I can’t write.