This article talks about two british artists Nick Bonner and Dominic Johnson-Hill, that live in North Korea since 20
years ago and made six medium size paintings that describes the sociopolitical situation
in China. These images are exposed in the Beijing Design Week and have a very
pop style and denote the emblem of the today era in China, developing the main
symbols of this culture in a Maoist system. Mr. Comrade Kim says ‘We wanted to
show contemporary China as it could have been, if it had continued with Maoist
ideology.” This text explains how the poses of the figures, the colors and the
objects based in the scene make the idyllic situation of happiness. Bonner says
that the artists have a foreign gaze so this creates dreamier scenery.
This view tries to points out that under
Maoist idyllic regime, existed a lot of hidden social conditions and human
right abuses, the paintings exacerbate the contrary assumption.
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