The Michael Jackson “King of Pop” Musical
On June 25th of 2009, several songs of the King of Pop were being listened to and heard through the windows of thousands of homes. The loss of the pop music symbol has saddened so many people that nobody wants to forget him and everybody want to revive him.
In October, “This Is It”, a musical documentary that showed exclusive Michael Jackson rehearsing was launched in cinemas all around the world for two weeks. And the last tribute will be released on March 13th at the Lope de Vega Theatre in Madrid: the musical “Forever King of Pop”.
Forever King of Pop
A new Michael Jackson will enter the stage of the Lope de Vega Theatre in Madrid. He is one of the 400 participants selected for the casting of the future musical. The casting proposed three historical themes, ‘Thriller’, ‘Black or White’ and ‘Beat it’ but the show includes 30 songs in two acts, with 14 dancers, impersonators and 16 choristers, acting for two hours and 30 minutes. Being the star of this musical will not be easy, because imitating the king of pop is very complicated and requires great physical and vocal preparation, plus a lot of momentum, and the know how, in order to transmit the love and the magic of Michael…
Neverland in Disney Land
Another story in order to resurrect the pop legend is the creation of a theme park in Disney Land, with a museum, an art center, a golf course and 300 hotel rooms. The idea is to create a copy of his home, Neverland, his paradise, where he lived from 1988 until 2006. The Jackson phenomenon is just beginning…
Like many people, you will enjoy attending this fantastic musical on March 13th in Madrid. With the fireworks, the magic, the live orchestra and the Gospel choir, it promises to be a dazzling and unforgettable spectacle, like Michael’s were… An anecdote: the memorial of the King of Pop on July 7th 2009 brought the highest audience ever reached on TV in history, surpassing the rate of Apollo XI, with over 2.500 million viewers. Reserve your place as soon as possible for the musical and rent Apartments in Madrid, they are cheap and we guarantee you will enjoy a relaxing stay.
Today we will talk about the financial crisis, about the consumerism and about the materialism, but in a very peculiar way. Specifically, from the point of view of Mr. Chen Wenling, a magnificent avant-garde sculptor born in Fujian (China) in 1969.
This ironic artist uses Western references in his sculptures. The red colour is also very important in his works. As for example in Red Memory. One of the most impressive is the series “cool”, meaning cold.
One of his works is called “God of Materialism”, a fibreglass painted sculpture.
The pig appears in almost all of his works. You could say that it is the quintessential signature of Chen Wenling. He uses the pig as a representation of greed and everything that is mundane. It is very interesting because the pig is very special in China. Chinese people eat pig in their meals and he uses it as a metaphor of greed and selfishness.
Another impressive work is about capitalism. He calls it “What we see is not always true”. Here he replaces the pig for a bull. We can see this animal (which represents Wall Street) rising from the floor with the force of his own fart and crushed against a wall. It is assumed that it emulates one of the biggest crooks in the history, Benard Madoff, with devil horns included, who is currently in prison. The scam is valued at 50,000 million dollars.
With this exhibition he wants to express the hard moments of this financial crisis. He really wants to portray the reflection of the world in which we live in. And he does it in a large scale, to draw the maximum attention to all of us and to make us think of what is happening around us.
With his tradition of bulls and pigs, Chen Wenling exhibited his works in Spain (Seville), mostly at the Contemporary Art Museum, where he joined his iconography, in this case the bull with his political views against the capitalism. Seville, the Andalusian capital, is part of the capitalist Europe. If you want to know the city, rent Apartments in Seville and take a look at his work around the wonderful streets and iconography of Seville, where capitalism and tradition come together through the art.