From AFP:
An eerie realism permeates Chen Guang‘s oil paintings of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, for he was one of the first soldiers to arrive in the square on the night China’s democratic hopes were crushed.
Now a member of Beijing’s alternative art scene, 37-year-old Chen’s hair is greying, but he is determined to pass his recollections on, giving rare testimony of the event from a soldier’s perspective.
“My friends, my family, my army buddies, all tell me not to touch this subject. That’s how sensitive it is,” he said.
