Chinese artist Chen Wenling critiques the global financial crisis in What You See Might Not Be Real, on display at a Beijing gallery. The bull is said to represent Wall Street, while the man pinned to the wall represents jailed financier Bernard Madoff.
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Looks like nice political art to me. It was however a Bear Market that brought Madoff to account. Not that accuracy is ever the point of art.
Madoff–only one person in jail and he had to voluntarily come forward, confess, and take a plea. Otherwise he would still be walking around.
No one else in jail. No laws passed. The bubble is being rebuilt.
The famous bull statue on Wall St. was placed there after the 1987 crash as a testament to “strength and power of the American people.”
This one would speak to our corruption and odor, I guess.
It would make a nice set of book ends.
Somebody needs to regulate that bull’s diet a little better.
#5 – Olo,
Someone left Kramer in charge of feeding the bull. He gave the bull beefarino.
It seems to me the artist was a little off. I would say the guy being gored is all of us.
Madoff would be the guy who supercharged the bull and then released him.
Nice work, but he’s way off on the Madoff thing. The person pinned against the wall should be a generic US taxpayer.
On a serious note..
Those that SHOULD have been monitoring what was happening, had MOST of there jobs CUT.
I love the USA gov idea of cutting costs. Its the SAME as EVERY CORP.
Cut the lower paid persons..
Insted of cutting those on TOP and keeping 4-5 of the inspectors..and expecting those FEW on the bottom to do the SAME amount of work..
ah arts and farses….. 😛
my fingers are dyslexic..
:-“
I interpret it as Bernie Madoff being propelled higher on bullshit profits until he hit the limits of wall street.
Or I can see it being, joe laborer being squashed between wall street and bullshit profits.
Either way, it’s genius and sums this crash up well.
If we cared about the working joe, this would replace the bull on wall street.
Yeah right like Wall Street is a beacon of hope in the rooting out financial crimes.
Maybe I’m wrong but what I think government enforcement lacked was due diligence.
I honestly think a couple of green as grass community college graduates who actually were serious about doing their jobs could have cracked this thing wide open in a couple of days.
They would not have been able to work out all the finer details but they would certainly have discovered the scam.
That’s what stinks worst about this scam. All you really had to do to discover it was seriously look.
# 12 Rick Cain,
I think you grossly misinterpreted my comments.
Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme collapsed in part (with out getting hyper specific) because wall street collapsed.
That is what I meant by limits of wall street. If wall street kept going Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme might also kept going.
That’s how I under stand the art
Bernie Madoff being propelled higher on bullshit profits until he hit the limits of wall street.