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The installations by internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. At first I thought I had done something wrong, but when I zoomed in it looked fine. The work is called "Forever Bicycles". He had another called "Iron Tree Trunk". But I didn't see it while I was there. The whole exhibition is called Museum Without Walls. It was in London before it came here. Austin is in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition. I've posted another view below. Hopefully I've done it correctly . If you click on the one below, you'll be able to get the full view
Barrio La Boca
Buenos Aires
El movimiento de las bicicletas inmóviles de Weiwei sorprende en el barrio de La Boca
Straightened mangled and twisted rebar, collected in Sichuan after earthquake (China) in 2008.
About 90 thousand people died, and among these many children at schools, which were of poor construction. To point to failure of authorities in this often by earthquakes visted area, team collected 200 tons twisted rebar, staightened this to be part of installation by Ai Wei Wei.
(photo by DM in K20/K21 Museum, Düsseldorf, 2019
Conceptional artist He Xiangyu saw the great Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei dead and called his work "Death of Marat".
Austin, Texas, ATX, TX. Art installation, sculpture, "Forever Bicycles" by Ai Weiwei. Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, black and white.
Die Installation, die ausgebreitet auf den fast 650 Quadratmetern in der Klee Halle im K20 ausgebreitet liegt, besteht aus über 60 Millionen doppelt gebrannter und handbemalter Sonnenblumenkerne aus chinesischem Porzellan. 1600 Menschen, darunter 600 Kunsthandwerker, haben daran über zwei Jahre lang in Jingdezhen, einer traditionsreichen Produktionsstätte für Porzellan, gearbeitet.
Ai Weiwei untersucht bei seiner Arbeit „Sunflower Seeds“ die Rolle des traditionellen Handwerks im Zeitalter von Massenproduktion und Globalisierung. Der Sonnenblumenkern spielt darüber hinaus auf eine politische Symbolik an: Mao Zedong (ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas), ließ sich auf Plakaten oftmals mit einer großen Sonne im Hintergrund darstellen. Die chinesische Bevölkerung sollte sich nach ihrem großen Vorsitzenden ausrichten, wie die Sonnenblume nach der Sonne.
Das Feld aus Sonnenblumenkernen ist umgeben von einer fortlaufenden Wandtapete, die über 13.000 Schuldscheine in chinesischer Sprache abbildet. Der Titel „I.O.U.“ steht in diesem Zusammenhang für die umgangssprachliche Abkürzung von „I owe you“ („Ich schulde dir“).
Nachdem Ai Weiwei 81 Tage in Haft verbrachte, wurde nach der Freilassung von seiner Firma die umgehende Begleichung einer Steuerschuld von umgerechnet 1,7 Millionen Euro verlangt. Dank privater Spenden aus der ganzen Welt konnte diese Summe bezahlt werden. Im Gegenzug hat Ai Weiwei die künstlerisch gestalteten Schuldscheine entworfen, die hier als Wandtapete gezeigt werden. Darauf sind neben den Namen der Spender auch Sonnenblumenkerne und Alpaka-Briefmarken zu erkennen, die symbolisch für die Spendensumme stehen. Sämtliche Spenden wurden von Ai Weiwei zurückgezahlt.
Die vielen Spenderinnen und Spender, die sich für Ai Weiweis Bemühungen um Transparenz und Gerechtigkeit in China einsetzten, korrespondieren hier insofern mit den 60 Millionen Sonnenblumenkernen in der Klee Halle.
Auf der Tapete „I.O.U.“ im K20 präsentiert Ai Weiwei zwölf quadratische Bildobjekte aus Legosteinen, die sich wie digitale Pixel zu chinesischen Tierköpfen verbinden. Sie zeigen die chinesischen Tierkreiszeichen vor berühmten Bauwerken.
Warum gerade aus Legosteinen, wurde er im Künstlergespräch der heutigen Eröffnung gefragt. Seine simple wie humorvolle Erklärung: "Weil ich nicht gerne male" ... ;-))
An image inspired by Monet's Water Lilies, constructed out of Lego bricks. The dark patch in the centre represents the opening to the underground dugout where Ai Wei Wei and his father were forced to live in exile in the 1960s.
""Everything is art, everything is politics', says Ai Weiwei. He calls for an understanding of art and politics as inseparable and all-encompassing. Clothes can also be art, and clothes can also be political. The clothes in the Laundromat installation belonged to refugees, most of whom came from Syria. With no prospect of further travel, they ended up in the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-North Macedonian border. Ai Weiwei visited the hopelessly overcrowded camp several times. When the camp was cleared by the Greek authorities in 2016, many belongings, especially clothing, were left behind. Ai Weiwei brought the clothes to his studio in Berlin and had them cleaned and repaired. Every piece of clothing tells of war, oppression, flight, persecution, and suffering. Sorted like in a laundry, they wait to be picked up and ask about the fate of the people who wore them."
Photographed in Museum K21 in Düsseldorf (Germany)
Artist Ai Weiwei's Gilded Cage installed in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park. Part of the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" series.
Artist Ai Weiwei's Gilded Cage installed in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park. Part of the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" series.
Ai Weiwei’s work, “Forever Bicycles 2014”, was shown in Austin Texas. Consisting of 1254 bicycles, “the work alludes to the Forever brand of bicycles that flooded China’s streets during the artist’s childhood yet remained financially out of reach for many.”
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Museum Kunsthal Rotterdam.
Grote tentoonstelling van Chinese kunstenaar Ai Weiwei.
Heel erg druk, je kon bijna over de hoofden lopen.
Ik vind Weiwei best wel een overgewaardeerde activistische kunstenaar.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
Albert Einstein
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Ai Weiwei
Murano glass
Edition of 100 each
GALERIE KOVACEK & ZETTER
When showing the middle finger, it depends very much on the perspective. Do you show it or are you shown it or do you see someone showing it to someone else and who shows it to whom?
If you use it to counter a dictatorship like the Chinese regime or the shady President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, who is acting as an exculpatory witness in the case of the long-disappeared tennis player Peng Shuai, it is perfectly adequate.
www.artsy.net/artwork/ai-weiwei-study-of-perspective-in-g...
But what about those covidiots who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and loudly claim in demonstrations that the government's coronavirus measures are the beginning of a dictatorship? These idiots worry me a lot.
These plates are two in a series of six depicting the perils of modern migration. For these works, Ai relies on the mastery of today’s cobalt painters able to work in the style of historical blue -and-white porcelain. Ai applies their skills to a contemporary subject, connecting the present crisis to the long history of migration.
The Death of Marat by He Xiangyu. This remarkably realistic sculpture is a depiction of fellow Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (who is still very much among the living).
A day or two before the unveiling of Ai Weiwei’s Arch at the Nationalmusum, I headed that way to try and shoot an artistic photo of the sculpture. It will stand here for five years, so there is a pretty good chance that I will go back with another lens now that the scaffolding is gone. I shot this standing close to the water with my Viltrox 85mm lens, so it is four photos that were tricky to stitch together.
...taken at Sakip Sabanci Museum... artwork called "Porcelain Cube" by Ai Wei Wei...
Istanbul, Turkey...
Ai Weiwei Trees, Downing College, Cambridge, 18 Jul 2016
I don't understand the meaning behind Ai Weiwei's 'Trees' sculpture, but it looks superb in a strong light.
...taken at Sakip Sabanci Museum... artwork called "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger" by Ai Wei Wei...
Istanbul, Turkey...
enjoying these snowy days in Wien we were surprised to find the installation "Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads" of Ai Weiwei in front of the Upper Belvedere
Th mind messing of Ai Weiwei built from 1264 bicycles arranged so as to create the optical illusion of movement
Water Lilies 2022 from lego bricks. This is a tribute to the water lily paintings of the French impressionist Claude Monet.
Ai Weiwei is one of the most significant and recognised artists working today..
This exhibition, developed in collaboration with the artist, is the first to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Through his engagement with material culture, Ai explores the tension between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.
The exhibition draws on Ai's fascination with historical Chinese artefacts, placing their traditional craftsmanship in dialogue with the more recent history of demolition and urban development in China.