The Red Box.

This volume brings together pictures of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. Reconstructed with papier-mâché decorations and figures from the period, the images gathered in this volume re-emerge the reminiscent and apologetic character that would correspond to one of the variants of the political pop, so influential in the country in the last two decades of the 20th century. Painting or meta-painting, the authors of the exhibition project, Manuel Cáceres and José Luis Miranda, narrate episodes from a China of the recent past, recovering the graphics of the old media in use, such as the propaganda poster. This “red box” is a kind of echo chamber, which bridges distances by narrowing analogies and contrasts between the different cultural references found in this privileged space where the inhabitants of these paintings and their probable viewers temporarily coexist.

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