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Forever Bicycles alludes to the Forever brand of bicycles that flooded China streets during the artist’s childhood yet remained financially out of reach, for many. With the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and The Forks as the backdrops, the dizzying structure of steel and light and shadow becomes an infinite puzzle
There are 1254 bicycles in the structure
Artist: Ai Weiwei
Photographed at
Ai Weiwei - Making Sense
At the Design Museum designmuseum.org/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-making-sense#
"This major exhibition, developed in collaboration with the artist, will be 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.
Turning destruction into art - The fragments of porcelain, are the remains of Ai Weiwei's porcelain sculptures that were destroyed when his "Left Right" studio in Beijing was demolished by the Chinese state in 2018.
The "Backpack Snake, 2008" is a work dedicated to the victims of the refugee crisis in Europe and the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
To complement the display of 'Trace' at the Hirshhorn, Ai Weiwei has created a new 360-degree wallpaper installation entitled (1) 'The Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'; and (2) 'The Plain Version of the Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'.
At first glance, the repeating graphic pattern looks merely decorative, but a closer inspection reveals surveillance cameras, handcuffs, and Twitter bird logos, which allude to Ai Weiwei’s tweets challenging authority. Together, both massive works span nearly 700 linear feet around the Hirshhorn’s second floor Outer Ring galleries.
Source: Hirshhorn Museum website
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To complement the display of 'Trace' at the Hirshhorn, Ai Weiwei has created a new 360-degree wallpaper installation entitled (1) 'The Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'; and (2) 'The Plain Version of the Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'.
At first glance, the repeating graphic pattern looks merely decorative, but a closer inspection reveals surveillance cameras, handcuffs, and Twitter bird logos, which allude to Ai Weiwei’s tweets challenging authority. Together, both massive works span nearly 700 linear feet around the Hirshhorn’s second floor Outer Ring galleries.
Source: Hirshhorn Museum website
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photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Forever Bicycle -- Ai WeiWei
At Toronto City Hall, Nuit Blanche 2013
Yong Jiu, literally translated as "forever", is the foremost bicycle brand in China; Ai re-interprets such everyday found objects in an abstract and symbolic way.
The sheer quantity of bikes and the diverse perceptions of viewing points create a colossal labyrinth-like, visually moving space, which represents the changing social environment in China and around the globe.
Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Château La Coste
Vernissage de l'exposition " Mountains and Seas" Ai Weiwei (8 avril/17 juin 2017)
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
WATER LILIES #1,2022
Lego bricks
Courtesy of Galleria Continua
The largest Lego work Ai has ever created, this is a recreation of one of the most famous paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet. We think of the painting as a portrait of nature, but Monet's lily pond at Giverny was a construct--an idealised landscape that he himself designed. To the right of Ai's version is a dark portal, which is the door to the underground dugout in Xinjiang province where Ai and his father, Ai Qing, lived in forced exile in the 1960s.
Their hellish desert home punctures the watery paradise. The image has been constructed out of Lego bricks to strip away Monet's brushstrokes in favour of a depersonalised language of industrial parts and colours.
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To complement the display of 'Trace' at the Hirshhorn, Ai Weiwei has created a new 360-degree wallpaper installation entitled (1) 'The Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'; and (2) 'The Plain Version of the Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca'.
At first glance, the repeating graphic pattern looks merely decorative, but a closer inspection reveals surveillance cameras, handcuffs, and Twitter bird logos, which allude to Ai Weiwei’s tweets challenging authority. Together, both massive works span nearly 700 linear feet around the Hirshhorn’s second floor Outer Ring galleries.
Source: Hirshhorn Museum website
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