November 15, 2011
Zunar Sends Greetings From Bilbao, Spain
The Malaysian cartoonist Zunar sent out a press release yesterday updating various interested parties around the world at just about exactly the midway piont of his artist-in-residence gig this Fall for the BilbaoArt/Fundacion BKK in Spain. The above photo is the cartoonist at an exhibit of his cartoons, part of a concurrent festival's anti-censorship programming. That went up on November 7 at Alhondiga, in the heart of downtown Bilbao.
He also sent along
a video from Spanish television. Zunar speaks in English at various points, which is funny because all you basically catch before the translator kicks in is him saying non-complimentary things about the government in Malaysia. Zunar continues to pursue legal action against the government for the suppression of his work in published, print form. This has not only involved arrests and seizure but has, if my understanding of the situation is correct, included a deep chill on any relationship Zunar might enjoy with any of his country's printers in terms of him getting future work out there. As always, I wish him the absolute best in his continuing and tragically unnecessary censorship battle and applaud those individuals and groups that have supported him in ways like the current residency.
posted 3:55 am PST |
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