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Shortly after Weiwei was born—most sources state on August 28, , but others suggest May 13 or 18, —communist officials accused of being a rightist, and the family was exiled to remote locales. They were first sent to the northeastern province of and then to the northwestern autonomous region of before being allowed to return to in , at the end of the . Eager to escape the restrictions of Chinese society, he moved to the in Although Ai initially focused on painting, he soon turned to sculpture , inspired by the ready-made works of the French artist and the German sculptor Joseph Beuys. Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized 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 , 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 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 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 . 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 , to whom he explicitly paid tribute with man in a cube. Once the exhibition in closed, the Stiftung Lutherhaus endeavored to make this exceptional manifestation of contemporary 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 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 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 '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 . 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 , 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 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 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. 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In which it gathers various perspectives about the two beatings, and brings us closer to the brutal reality of China's "crackdown on crime". On 24 April at , Ai Weiwei aiww started a Twitter campaign to commemorate students who perished in the earthquake in Sichuan on 12 May Remembrance is an audio work dedicated to the young people who lost their lives in the Sichuan earthquake. It expresses thoughts for the passing of innocent lives and indignation for the cover-ups on truths about sub-standard architecture, which led to the large number of schools that collapsed during the earthquake. The shooting and editing of this video lasted nearly seven months at the Ai Weiwei studio. It began near the end of in an interception organized by cat-saving volunteers in Tianjin, and the film locations included Tianjin, Shanghai, Rugao of Jiangsu, Chaoshan of Guangzhou, and Hebei Province. The documentary depicts a complete picture of a chain in the cat-trading industry. Since the end of when the government began soliciting expert opinion for the Animal Protection Act, the focus of public debate has always been on whether one should be eating cats or not, or whether cat-eating is a Chinese tradition or not. There are even people who would go as far as to say that the call to stop eating cat meat is "imposing the will of the minority on the majority". Yet the "majority" does not understand the complete truth of cat-meat trading chains: cat theft, cat trafficking, killing cats, selling cats, and eating cats, all the various stages of the trade and how they are distributed across the country, in cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Rugao, , Guangzhou, and Hebei. This well-organized, smooth-running industry chain of cat abuse, cat killing and skinning has already existed among ordinary Chinese folks for 20 years, or perhaps even longer. The degree of civilization of a country can be seen from its attitude towards animals. One hundred architects from 27 countries were chosen to participate and design a square meter villa to be built in a new community in Inner Mongolia. The villas would be designed to fit a master plan designed by Ai Weiwei. On 25 January , the architects gathered in Ordos for a first site visit. The film Ordos documents the total of three site visits to Ordos, during which time the master plan and design of each villa was completed. As of , the Ordos project remains unrealized. So Sorry shows the investigation led by Ai Weiwei studio to identify the students who died during the Sichuan earthquake as a result of corruption and poor building constructions leading to the confrontation between Ai Weiwei and the Chengdu police. After being beaten by the police, Ai Weiwei traveled to Munich, to prepare his exhibition at the museum Haus der Kunst. The result of his beating led to intense headaches caused by a brain hemorrhage and was treated by emergency surgery. These events mark the beginning of Ai Weiwei's struggle and surveillance at the hands of the state police. This documentary investigates the death of popular Zhaiqiao village leader Qian Yunhui in the fishing village of Yueqing, province. When the local government confiscated marshlands in order to convert them into construction land, the villagers were deprived of the opportunity to cultivate these lands and be fully self-subsistent. Qian Yunhui, unafraid of speaking up for his villagers, travelled to Beijing several times to report this injustice to the central government. In order to silence him, he was detained by local government repeatedly. On 25 December , Qian Yunhui was hit by a truck and died on the scene. News of the incident and photos of the scene quickly spread over the internet. The local government claimed that Qian Yunhui was the victim of an ordinary traffic accident. This film is an investigation conducted by Ai Weiwei studio into the circumstances of the incident and its connection to the land dispute case, mainly based on interviews of family members, villagers and officials. It is an attempt by Ai Weiwei to establish the facts and find out what really happened on 25 December During shooting and production, Ai Weiwei studio experienced significant obstruction and resistance from local government. The film crew was followed, sometimes physically stopped from shooting certain scenes and there were even attempts to buy off footage. All villagers interviewed for the purposes of this documentary have been interrogated or illegally detained by local government to some extent. Early in , the district government of Jiading, Shanghai invited Ai Weiwei to build a studio in Malu Township, as a part of the local government's efforts in developing its cultural assets. In October , the Shanghai government declared the Ai Weiwei Shanghai Studio an illegal construction, and it was subjected to demolition. On 7 November , when Ai Weiwei was placed under house arrest by public security in Beijing, over 1, netizens attended the "River Crab Feast" at the Shanghai Studio. On 11 January , the Shanghai city government forcibly demolished the Ai Weiwei Studio within a day, without any prior notice. This video tells the story of Liu Ximei, who at her birth in was given to relatives to be raised because she was born in violation of China's strict one-child policy. When she was ten years old, Liu was severely injured while working in the fields and lost large amounts of blood. While undergoing treatment at a local hospital, she was given a blood transfusion that was later revealed to be contaminated with HIV. According to official statistics, in there were , AIDS sufferers in China, many of whom contracted the illness in the s and s as the result of a widespread plasma market operating in rural, impoverished areas and using unsafe collection methods. The documentary goes onto chronologically reconstruct the events that occurred from the time he was arrested at the Beijing airport in April to his final court appeal in September The film portrays the day-to-day activity surrounding Ai Weiwei, his family and his associates ranging from consistent visits by the authorities, interviews with reporters, support and donations from fans, and court dates. This documentary on the Fukushima Art Project is about artist Ai Weiwei's investigation of the site as well as the project's installation process. Ai accepted the invitation and sent his assistant Ma Yan to the exclusion zone in Japan to investigate the site. Both water and electric circuits were cut off. Entrance restriction is expected to be relieved in the next thirty years, or even longer. The art project will also be open to public at that time. The three spots usable as exhibition spaces by the artists are all former residential houses, among which exhibition site one and two were used for working and lodging; and exhibition site three was used as a community entertainment facility with an ostrich farm. Ai brought about two projects, A Ray of Hope and Family Album after analyzing materials and information generated from the site. In A Ray of Hope , a solar photovoltaic system is built on exhibition site one, on the second level of the old warehouse. Integral LED lighting devices are used in the two rooms. This lighting system is the only light source in the Exclusion Zone after this project was installed. Photos of Ai and his studio staff at that make up project Family Album are displayed on exhibition site two and three, in the seven rooms where locals used to live. The twenty-two selected photos are divided in five categories according to types of event spanning eight years. Among these photos, six of them were taken from the site investigation at the Sichuan earthquake; two were taken during the time when he was illegally detained after pleading the case in Chengdu, China in August ; and three others taken during his surgical treatment for his head injury from being attacked in the head by police officers in Chengdu; five taken of him being followed by the police and his Beijing studio Fake Design under surveillance due to the studio tax case from to ; four are photos of Ai Weiwei and his family from year to year ; and the other two were taken earlier of him in his studio in Caochangdi One taken in and the other in A feature documentary directed by Weiwei and co-produced by Andy Cohen about the global crisis. Ai's visual art includes sculptural installations, woodworking, video and photography. 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 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 . 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. Main article: Human Flow. Main article: Coronation film. China portal Biography portal Visual arts portal Politics portal. Ai, Weiwei; Pins, Anthony. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Current Biography Yearbook Ipswich, MA: H. Archived from the original on 26 September Retrieved 4 October Groninger Museum. Archived from the original on 26 May Retrieved 6 July Ai Weiwei, " According to What? Archived from the original on 13 July Retrieved 13 July The Brooklyn Rail. 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A global citizen, artist and thinker, Ai Weiwei moves between modes of production and investigation, subject to the direction and outcome of his research, whether into the Chinese earthquake of for works such as Straight , and Remembering , or the worldwide plight of refugees and forced migrants for Law of the Journey and his feature-length documentary, Human Flow , both Beyond concerns of form or protest, Ai now measures our existence in relation to economic, political, natural and social forces, uniting craftsmanship with conceptual creativity. Universal symbols of humanity and community, such as bicycles, flowers and trees, as well as the perennial problems of borders and conflicts are given renewed potency though installations, sculptures, films and photographs, while Ai continues to speak out publicly on issues he believes important. He is one of the leading cultural figures of his generation and serves as an example for free expression both in China and internationally. Ai Weiwei was born in in Beijing and now lives and works in . Among numerous awards and honours, he won the lifetime achievement award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in and was made Honorary Academician at the , London in Ai Weiwei Illumination bricks, x x 3. Copyright Gaetane Girard. Ai Weiwei Odyssey Wallpaper Dimensions variable. Ai Weiwei Plate with Flowers Porcelain 46 x 46 x 6. Ai Weiwei Forever Bicycles Dimensions variable. Arrested on flimsy charges in , Ai left China once his passport was eventually returned to him, four years later. The attraction of low-wage labour and imported goods, coupled with the big markets in China for German Volkswagen and BMW cars, has distorted political judgment, he argues. It is more than a partner. It has not spoken out on issues such as Taiwan, or the constitution. There is no higher moral principle and that is a mistake. Controversially, the artist has repeatedly compared German attitudes to the certainties and ambitions that were prevalent during the Nazi era. It has clearly been the aim since the s and Chairman Mao. For his latest project, Ai has taken over the large display screen in Piccadilly Circus, central London, with a series of images from his artworks and political films that will run for the rest of the month. The works scheduled for the first three days of this week will focus on his responses to the terrible toll of the earthquake in Sichuan province. The artist hopes that pedestrians passing through Piccadilly Circus will take in some of his images this month, although he believes people have generally become inured to the impact of pictures.

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Study of Perspective in Glass Deep Study of Perspective in Glass Opaline Study of Perspective in Glass Cobalt Study of Perspective in Glass Porcelain Freedom Pendant , Alpha Gallery. Bombs , See our Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. By continuing to use our sites and applications, you agree to our use of cookies. Get the latest news on the events, trends, and people that shape the global art market with our daily newsletter. Ai Weiwei Chinese, born Biography Ai Weiwei is one of the best known artists working today. His provocative blend of Chinese history and tradition within a wholly contemporary practice serves as a form of human rights activism, cultural commentary, and critique of the global imbalance of power—a fact that has turned Ai into a political target. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust. Detained for 81 days by the Chinese government in , the artist was released without ever being officially charged with a crime. Ai continues to live and work in Beijing, China. Ai Weiwei results. Load More. Back to Top. Ai Weiwei Study of Perspective in Glass X Newsletter Signup. Please enter a valid email address. For his latest project, Ai has taken over the large display screen in Piccadilly Circus, central London, with a series of images from his artworks and political films that will run for the rest of the month. The works scheduled for the first three days of this week will focus on his responses to the terrible toll of the earthquake in Sichuan province. The artist hopes that pedestrians passing through Piccadilly Circus will take in some of his images this month, although he believes people have generally become inured to the impact of pictures. During lockdown Ai made a film about Wuhan, where the Covid outbreak began, called Coronation , which is available on Vimeo. He is now planning an exhibition in Cambridge. Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Topics Ai Weiwei The Observer. Donald Trump China Germany London interviews. Reuse this content. Most popular.

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