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Madrid.- A Chilean artist temporarily intervened at the Madrid Wax Museum to place, next to the American president, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office, a figure of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dressed as the demonic doll Chucky with a lapdog with the face of the Argentinian Javier Milei.
"I work with action art and contextual art, which have to do with reading already given situations, in this case the scene in the museum, and mixing them with situations at a global level, such as the genocide in Gaza," explains the artist, Nicolás Miranda, this Thursday.
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The scene, 'Child's play', lasted barely half an hour. The artist entered yesterday afternoon with some companions to the Madrid museum with the figures hidden in backpacks and bags, installed them in the Oval Office that already existed and, after a while and a few photographs, dismantled the exhibition and took it to his house. The scene was picturesque: Trump in a suit and red tie and Melania in a white dress, surrounded by Netanyahu with Chucky's denim overalls sitting in the presidential chair; Milei barking at the feet of the Republican president and at his sides three rats: the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida; and the president of the Spanish far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal. "I am interested in language and, to be honest, in ruffling feathers," says the artist point-blank, who claims that he "avoids the pamphlet" and wanted to set up a "far-right altarpiece" that would show the "paradox" and the "contradictions of the system." That part of the museum, which represents the Oval Office, has next to it a figure of Mary Poppins, a Gandhi, and a representation of the last supper. "So, from that salad I can already operate similarly, so, I can put these characters on the right from a bizarre cinematographic perspective, which basically refers to the issue of the society of the spectacle," explains the artist, who is already known for placing a life-size sculpture of the emeritus king Juan Carlos shooting a rifle at the mythical sculpture of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree of the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. The intervention was carried out behind the museum's back, which, according to the local press, has disassociated itself from the action, but the whole process, the artist points out, was "easy". They went several times in the last year, located the cameras, the moments with fewer people, and the logistics to put in the figures made with a metallic structure with modeling clay and painted in oil.
