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Still, even as the surveillance and pressures have eased a bit, ai couldnt leave china to attend the opening of the district of columbia exhibition. The decision to be subterranean is a very deliberate one, he says. His work encompasses diverse fields including fine arts, curating, architecture, and social criticism. Open in his criticism of the chinese government, ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. Writings, interviews, and digital rants, 20062009 is a compilation of texts that appeared on the artists blog during a threeyear period. Ai weiwei, xia xing, li dafang, li songsong, meng huan. Ai weiwei already used photography in his new york years, but especially since his return to beijing, he has incessantly. Jul 09, 2011 ai weiwei, ai weiwei, williamsburg, brooklyn, 1983. His recent exhibitions include sunflower seeds at the tate modern, london, a vast assemblage of handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds. The documentary goes onto chronologically reconstruct the events that occurred from the time he was arrested at the beijing airport in april 2011 to his. Translated from the original chinese, these 100 essays are seen in this book in english for the first time and represent weiweis desire for social change. Ai s passport has not been returned to him and his freedom of travel remains restricted. This first, large exhibition and book project of his photography and videos focused on ai weiwei s diversity, complexity, and connectedness, his interlacing and networking.
While ai s art was lauded internationally, the frequently provocative and subversive dimension of his art, as well as his political outspokenness. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. According to what, adapted and expanded by the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden from a 2009 exhibition at tokyos mori art museum, was ai s first north american museum retrospective. This first, large exhibition and book project of his photography and videos focuses on ai weiweis diversity, complexity, and connectedness, his interlacing and. In 1981, ai weiwei went to the usa, and in 1983 to new york, where he studied under painter. Ai weiwei is a conceptual, socially critical artist dedicated to creating friction with, and forming. This problem has such a long history, a human history. Interlacing is the first major exhibition of collected works by chinas renowned dissident artist ai. His fame and notoriety transcend the art world and encompass the realm of our broader, global modern culture. As an architect, sculptor, photographer, blogger, twitterer, interview artist and political activist, weiwei acts as a seismograph for current social. Upon his release, he was prohibited from traveling abroad, engaging in public speech, and was subjected to continued government surveillance. Ai weiweis little black book ai weiwei with his new book weiweiisms, edited by larry warsh i didnt expect a publication that has been touted as one of the best art books of 2012 to stand just six inches tall and contain only two photographs.
A cultural figure of international renown, ai weiwei is an activist, architect, curator, filmmaker, and chinas most famous artist. Selected from articles, interviews, and conversations, ai weiwei s words speak to the profound urgency of the global refugee crisis, the resilience and vulnerability of the human condition, and the role of art in providing a voice for the voiceless. While ais art was lauded internationally, its frequently provocative dimension as well as his political outspokenness triggered forms of repression from chinese authorities. Ai wei wei as wonderful dissident, terrible artist the new.
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