「拳銃を握る金氏、倒れたトランプ氏」 韓国アート展
2018年12月21日 19:14 発信地：ソウル/韓国 [ 韓国 韓国・北朝鮮 ]
韓国ソウルのアートセンターに展示されている、北朝鮮の金正恩氏とドナルド・トランプ米大統領を描いたイム・ヨンソン氏のインスタレーション作品（2018年12月19日撮影）。(c)Ed JONES / AFP
【12月21日 AFP】韓国ソウルのアートセンターで、アーティストのイム・ヨンソン（Lim Young-sun）氏が手掛けたインスタレーション作品が展示されている。
「拳銃を握る北朝鮮の金正恩（キム・ジョンウン、Kim Jong-Un）朝鮮労働党委員長が、倒れた米国のドナルド・トランプ（Donald Trump）大統領を見下ろす」姿が表現されている。(c)AFP
Think of a situation where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is shooting US President Donald Trump, the scene at an art exhibition now is the talk of the town in South Korea where Kim Jong-un is seen with a smoking pistol in his hand, looking down at the dead body of Donald Trump, which is sprawled on a red carpet next to a metal bag which is overflowing with US dollars and the back of the North Korean leader glows a neon slogan saying “The show must go on!”
Though the scene is not real and is a part of an installation in an art exhibition in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, depicting the political satire on the diplomacy over the Korean peninsula, which has become a big political show featuring world’s top two biggest showmen. The war of words between the two world leaders, one, a nuclear-armed North Korea and other, the world’s superpower the United States have culminated into the highly publicized summit in June also dominated huge global headlines this year.
The piece of art is designed by South Korean artist Lim Young-sun depicting the end of a whirlwind year, during which Kim and Trump traded threats of war and personal attacks against each other ending with the summit in Singapore. The 59-year-old artist said, “I just wanted to show our political reality we live in, in which citizens get nervous, anxious and happy watching their every single move as if they are watching a movie”.
The work basically portrays Kim and Trump as friends and quarreling over money and is designed at the backdrop of a film. Eventually, Kim, angered by the high-interest rates demanded by Trump, shoots the lender to death. “Both the leaders are masters of political shows and using the tension created by their hostile rhetoric for their own political gain at home...but what they are lacking seems sincerity”, Lim said.
The weeklong exhibition, which ended recently, drew thousands of visitors, some of whom were angry at the sight of the leader of South Korea’s top ally being killed though in the art by the leader himself, who is their rival too. The art installation, which is also a metaphor for international politics that is driven by money and capitalism, will be showcased in other parts of South Korea and abroad next year.
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