The artist was given a year of camps for sex performance

[Dogel]

During the performance a "sensitive zone" in the Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery Chinese artist Chen Li (Cheng Li) committed sexual intercourse with his assistant. After he was arrested and sentenced to a year of camps, as it became known only now.

Performance of 57-year old artist was part of the exhibition "Art prostitution, and the opening was attended only by experts and critics. The main idea of ​​the exhibition and artistic action, according to the author, was a critique of the trend of commercialization, which is nothing like the sex trade for commercial purposes. "

What is the name assistant Lee and she will suffer the punishment, not reported. At the same time, the artist's wife made a public statement that does not find anything objectionable in the art event of her husband and "understands it".

As it became known to journalists, Chen Li was detained on March 23 and March 25 has already told his lawyer that the artist will spend a year in labor camp.

The lawyer is going to appeal for reconsideration: "We're going to ask other artists to testify that it was a performance, and to draw the line between art and law." Chen Li was detained along with two other artists - Huang Xiang (Huang Xiang) and Chzhuy Hunem (Zhui Hun).