Violence erupts at Park’s nude painting
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A nude painting of impeached South Korean president Park Geun-hye met a violent end at the country’s parliament yesterday, as supporters tore the work — which evokes Edouard Manet’s Olympia — off the wall and destroyed it.
The image was part of an exhibition at the National Assembly featuring works by 22 artists lampooning Park and her confidante Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of the corruption scandal that led to Park’s impeachment.
In Manet’s 19th-century original, on display in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, a naked white woman widely identified as a prostitute stares boldly out at the viewer while a black servant brings her flowers.
In Lee Koo-young’s version, entitled “Dirty Sleep,” Park’s features are transposed onto a nude Asian woman who clasps a missile from the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to her bosom. Park last year agreed with the US to deploy the system in South Korea in response to what they claim is the threat of missiles from nuclear-armed North Korea.
She is also depicted dozing as the Sewol ferry — which sank with the loss of nearly 400 lives three years ago — sinks outside her window.
Two puppies cavort on her thighs and Choi takes the place of the servant.
Some 20 Park supporters went on a rampage at the exhibition, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said.
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