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Artist Guo Jian: deported for creating art recalling the Tiananmen Square massacre. Photograph: Emerging Collective<\/p>\n
Monica Tan<\/p>\n
Monday 3 November 2014 23.43 EST<\/p>\n
Three days before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Guo Jian gathered his friends for dinner. He was calling it his \u201clast supper\u201d, a joke his friends didn\u2019t find too funny. Earlier that day, the 52-year-old had a haircut and cut his nails, motivated by a sense of foreboding that it might be a while before he\u2019d have the opportunity to do so again.<\/p>\n
The fear was well-founded. The Financial Times had published a lengthy interview with the Chinese-born Australian artist and art teacher that morning, in which he recounted taking part in China\u2019s 1989 pro-democracy hunger strikes and the nightmarish, tragic massacre that followed. Also mentioned was an artwork Guo had been working on: a diorama of Tiananmen Square, mired by war, and then covered in pink, uncooked meat. The works had never left the privacy of his studio, but photos snapped by neighbours had begun circulating online.<\/p>\n
The artist\u2019s diorama of an embattled Tiananmen Square. Photograph: Guo Jian<\/p>\n After dinner, Guo returned to his studio, situated on the furthest outskirts of Beijing in an artist village called Songzhuang. \u201cI knew they were coming,\u201d he tells me over the phone. \u201cI looked around and thought: \u2018what am I going to do with my studio?\u2019 My mind was really empty. Waiting and waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chinese-born Australian artist on th … Continue reading <\/a>Guo Jian’s Tiananmen Square<\/p>\n