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{DOWNLOAD} Ai Weiwei Ebook Free Download AI WEIWEI PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Karen Smith,Bernhard Fibicher,Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Qing Ai,Weiwei Ai | 160 pages | 16 May 2009 | Phaidon Press Ltd | 9780714848891 | English | London, United Kingdom Ai Weiwei Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory Shortly after Weiwei was born—most sources state on August 28, , but others suggest May 13 or 18, —communist officials accused Ai Qing of being a rightist, and the family was exiled to remote locales. They were first sent to the northeastern province of Heilongjiang and then to the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang before being allowed to return to Beijing in , at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Eager to escape the restrictions of Chinese society, he moved to the United States in Although Ai initially focused on painting, he soon turned to sculpture , inspired by the ready-made works of the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German sculptor Joseph Beuys. Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries-old Chinese artifacts—for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca-Cola logo and pieces of Ming - and Qing -era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations. After building his own studio complex on the edge of Beijing in , Ai turned toward architecture , and four years later he founded the design firm FAKE to realize his projects, which emphasized simplicity through the use of commonplace materials. In Ai was invited to write a blog for the Chinese Web portal Sina. Although he initially used the blog as a means of documenting the mundane aspects of his life, he soon found it a suitable forum for his often blunt criticism of the Chinese government. Furthermore, nearly a year after the Sichuan earthquake —in which shoddy construction was suspected to have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in collapsed public schools—Ai lambasted officials for not having released details on the fatalities and mobilized his growing readership to investigate. The blog was soon shut down, and Ai was placed under surveillance, though he refused to curtail his activities. He transferred his online presence to Twitter. Later in he was assaulted by police in Chengdu , where he was supporting a kindred activist on trial. Until the exhibit was roped off because of a feared health hazard, Ai had encouraged visitors to walk upon the seeds, considering the fragile sculptures a metaphor for the downtrodden Chinese populace. Ai was briefly placed under house arrest to prevent him from attending a party at the complex in November, and the site was demolished two months later. Also in November Ai launched another citizen investigation following a deadly fire in a Shanghai high-rise apartment building. Article Contents. Home Visual Arts Architecture. His works address his investigation into the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake and responses to the Chinese government's detention and surveillance of him. The performance was memorialized in a series of three photographic still frames. It is four metres long and weighs kilograms. It is made from wood salvaged from Qing Dynasty temples. The reconstruction was completed using Chinese period specific joinery techniques. The work as installed was called ,, and subsequent installations have been titled Sunflower Seeds. Made by the traditional method for which the city is known, a thirty-stage process was employed. The sculpture refers to chairman Mao's rule and the Chinese Communist Party. The mass of tiny seeds represents that, together, the people of China can stand up and overthrow the Chinese Communist Party. The seeds also refer to China's current mass automated production based on Western style the consumerist culture. The sculpture challenges the "Made in China" mantra, memorialising labour-intensive traditional methods of craft objects. The original installation was at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay ; the portraits being of various political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. After seeing one million visitors during its one-year display at Alcatraz, the installation was moved and put on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. The display at the Hirshhorn ran from 28 June — 1 January The art piece is currently on display at the National Gallery in Prague until 7 January Journey of Laziz is a video installation, showing mental breakdown and overall suffering of tiger living in the "world's worst ZOO" in Gaza. The project, a collaboration of Ai Weiwei and architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron , features surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition software, near-infrared floor projections, tethered, autonomous drones and sonar beacons. A companion website includes a curatorial statement, artist biographies, a livestream of the installation and a timeline of surveillance technology from ancient to modern times. The two pieces were installed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. That figure is the likeness of myself during my eighty-one days under secret detention in He was also intrigued by the connectedness of freedom, language and ideas in Martin Luther , to whom he explicitly paid tribute with man in a cube. Once the exhibition in Wittenberg closed, the Stiftung Lutherhaus Eisenach endeavored to make this exceptional manifestation of contemporary Reformation commemoration, man in a cube , permanently accessible to a wide audience. Thanks to the generous support of numerous backers, the museum managed to acquire the sculpture in Forever Bicycles is a foot 9. The sculpture was installed as 1, bicycles in Austin, Texas in The foot 9. A sculpture of many bicycles is displayed as public art in the gardens of the Artz Pedregal shopping mall in Mexico City since its opening in March One of these tokens is forever unavailable to anyone, but the other is meant for distribution and is divisible up to 18 decimal places, meaning it can be given away one quintillionth at a time. A nominal amount of the distributable token was "burned" put into digital wallets with the keys thrown away , and these wallet addresses were printed on paper and sold to art buyers in a series of 12 physical works. Each wallet address alphanumeric is a proxy for a shared moment between Abosch and Ai. In , he was the curator of the project Jinhua Architecture Park. He invited architects from 29 countries to participate in this project. I turn down all the demands to have photographs with it," saying it is part of a "pretend smile" of bad taste. Ai said "It's disgusting. I don't like anyone who shamelessly abuses their profession, who makes no moral judgment. This edition of Yang Lian's poems and Ai Weiwei's visual images was realized by the publishing house Damocle Edizioni — Venice in numbered copies on Fabriano Paper. Every book is hand signed by Yang Lian and Ai Weiwei. Ruya Foundation collected over submissions. The video was an attempt to criticize the Chinese government's attempt to silence his activism and was quickly blocked by national authorities. On 22 May , Ai debuted his first single Dumbass over the internet, with a music video shot by cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The video was a reconstruction of Ai's experience in prison, during his day detention, and dives in and out of the prison's reality and the guarding soldiers' fantasies. This contemporary art archive and experimental gallery in Beijing concentrates on experimental art from the People's Republic of China, initiates and facilitates exhibitions and other forms of introductions inside and outside China. In , Ai sat on the jury of an international initiative to find a universal Logo for Human Rights. The winning design, combining the silhouette of a hand with that of a bird, was chosen from more than 15, suggestions from over countries. The initiative's goal was to create an internationally recognized logo to support the global human rights movement. To me, it's abusively using government powers to interfere in individuals' privacy. This is an important moment for international society to reconsider and protect individual rights. In , Ai interviewed a member of the 50 Cent Party , a group of "online commentators" otherwise known as sockpuppets covertly hired by the Chinese government to post "comments favourable towards party policies and [intending] to shape public opinion on internet message boards and forums". Ai designed the cover for 17 June issue of Time magazine. In , Ai became a Reporters Without Borders ambassador. In —, Ai explored human rights and freedom of expression through an exhibition of his art exclusively created for Alcatraz , a notorious federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. Ai's Large exhibit raised questions and contradictions about human rights and the freedom of expression through his artwork at the island's layered legacy as a 19th-century military fortress. The life jackets had been discarded by refugees arriving on the shore on the Greek island of Lesbos. Later that year, he installed a different piece, also using discarded life jackets, at the pond at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna. In , Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei are among the six artists that have designed covers for ES Magazine celebrating the "resilience of London" in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks. Louis opened with a major exhibition of work by Ai Weiwei: "Bare Life". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the documentary film about the artist, see Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Chinese conceptual artist and dissident. Beijing , China. See also: Free Ai Weiwei street art campaign. Main article: List of works by Ai Weiwei. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately , especially if potentially libelous or harmful.
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