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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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Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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Visitors to the Tate Modern art gallery look at Ai Wei Wei's exhibit, "Sunflower Seeds 2010". Taken using the Vignette app on my mobile phone.
"when a cat opens a door it leaves it open." Ai Weiewei, artist/political activist being philosophical.
Hier an der Emschermündung haben wir übernachtet. Aber den Abend haben wir natürlich lieber am Rhein verbracht!
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A maior exposição do artista plástico chinês Ai Weiwei já realizada, premiada pela APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte) como a Melhor Exposição Internacional de 2018. Convidado pelo curador, o artista desvenda a cultura brasileira e cria obras que representam a biodiversidade, a paisagem humana e a criatividade local. Ai Weiwei Raiz apresenta também alguns dos trabalhos mais icônicos do artista, hoje considerado um dos principais nomes da cena contemporânea internacional. Curadoria: Marcello Dantas. 21.08 a 04.11.2019.
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