YANGON -- What should have been a great moment for Myanmar contemporary art, an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris celebrating the late artist and actor Bagyi Aung Soe, was overshadowed by the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar.
But in some ways it seemed fitting that the backdrop for the exhibition -- post-coup violence, chaos and confusion -- highlighted similarly historic moments that Bagyi Aung Soe lived through and occasionally addressed in his work, up to his death in 1990 at the age of 66.
