Video: Child soldiers in an adult war. Made in China portrait of toy soldiers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Children need a happy and carefree childhood, in which, if there is a place for war and machine guns, then toys, plastic, fake ones. Children should not see the war, and even more so should not take a direct part in it. If this happens, it is a tragedy. Such a tragedy was the Japanese-Chinese War of 1937-1945, and the art project Made in China, large-scale installation Joe Black), is devoted to just this topic. In his art project, the artist recreated a portrait of a soldier, once published in LIFE magazine in 1938. A portrait of a boy soldier, a soldier of the Chinese army, who fought, shot and killed enemies on a par with adult men. The large-scale portrait was made in the form of an installation, the material for which was thousands of multi-colored plastic soldiers, favorite toys of every boy.
It took Joe Black 5, 5 thousand plastic warriors to complete this portrait. As a result, the installation was named Made in China, partly because it is about an important episode in the history of the formation of China, and partly for another reason. As it turned out, these plastic toy soldiers were made exactly there, in China, like many other popular children's toys: dolls, cars, pistols …
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