Bust of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo unveiled in Prague to mark 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre
- Statue introduced at Dox Centre for Contemporary Art as part of joint project with Amnesty International, Art for Amnesty and Humanitarian China
A Prague art gallery has unveiled a brass bust of the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
“It’s his first bust in the world so far,” Hana Janisova, spokeswoman for the Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, told AFP.
A joint project of Amnesty International, Art for Amnesty, Humanitarian China and Dox, the bust by Czech sculptress Marie Seborova was unveiled on Monday as part of an exhibition marking the anniversary.
Liu, a writer and philosopher, veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, died of liver cancer at age 61 in 2017 after serving several prison terms for his activities.
Liu’s widow Liu Xia, a 58-year-old poet, had been expected to take part in the opening ceremony, but she excused herself at the last moment “for serious personal reasons”, Janisova said.
