Danish sculptor labels order a warning that sculpture will be destroyed unless it is removed
13 October 2021 - 16:59The 8m-high ‘Pillar of Shame’ in Hong Kong by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot pays tribute to the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on June 4 1989. Picture: REUTERS/TYRONE SIUThe Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 has accused a leading Hong Kong university of mafia-style tactics over its order to have it removed.
After the group disbanded last month with some members accused of national security offences, the University of Hong Kong sent a letter to the alliance last week requesting it remove the statue from the campus by 11am on Wednesday. The statue, which Galschiot estimates is worth about €1.2m, depicts dozens of torn and twisted bodies that symbolise those killed in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square more than 30 years ago.
Galschiot said he contacted the university to explain that he is the owner of the statue and to offer to help with what he described as a “complicated operation” to move it.
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