Badiucao's provocative new works will be unveiled to the public on Saturday, despite protests from Chinese diplomats. In a letter to Brescia's mayor, the country's embassy in Rome said the artworks are "full of anti-Chinese lies," and that they "distort the facts, spread false information, mislead the understanding of the Italian people and seriously injure the feelings of the Chinese people," according to local newspaper Giornale di Brescia.
lørdag 13. november 2021
Provocative art exhibition opens in Italy amid Chinese embassy protests
At a museum in Brescia, northern Italy, Shanghai-born artist Badiucao is making final adjustments to an exhibition that has enraged Chinese officials. Images of President Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh -- a tongue-in-cheek comparison now widely censored on Chinese social media -- hang alongside a tribute to Wuhan whistleblower Li Wenliang and a depiction of riot police pursuing a protestor. Mock posters for the forthcoming Winter Olympics show a snowboarder sliding across a CCTV camera and a biathlete pointing a rifle towards a blindfolded Uighur prisoner.
Badiucao's provocative new works will be unveiled to the public on Saturday, despite protests from Chinese diplomats. In a letter to Brescia's mayor, the country's embassy in Rome said the artworks are "full of anti-Chinese lies," and that they "distort the facts, spread false information, mislead the understanding of the Italian people and seriously injure the feelings of the Chinese people," according to local newspaper Giornale di Brescia.
Badiucao's provocative new works will be unveiled to the public on Saturday, despite protests from Chinese diplomats. In a letter to Brescia's mayor, the country's embassy in Rome said the artworks are "full of anti-Chinese lies," and that they "distort the facts, spread false information, mislead the understanding of the Italian people and seriously injure the feelings of the Chinese people," according to local newspaper Giornale di Brescia.
