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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)
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Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads is the centerpiece of a global, multi-year touring exhibition that will be presented in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The set of twelve zodiac heads was recently on display at the São Paolo Biennale in Brazil (September – December 2010). The official world tour for Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads by Ai Weiwei will launch in New York City at the historic Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park and the Plaza Hotel. The heads will be on display there from May through July 2011, with additional international and domestic venues to follow.
Designed in the 18th century by two European Jesuits serving in the court of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong, the twelve zodiac animal heads originally functioned as a water clock-fountain, which was sited in the magnificent European-style gardens of the Yuanming Yuan. In 1860, the Yuanming Yuan was ransacked by French and British troops, and the heads were pillaged. In re-interpreting these objects on an oversized scale, Ai Weiwei focuses attention on questions of looting and repatriation, while extending his ongoing exploration of the “fake” and the copy in relation to the original.
21erHaus: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at
Belvedere: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at
Wang Family Ancestral Hall, Ming Dynasty
from Xiaoqi Village, Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province
Installation by Ai Weiwei
at Galleria Continua
in cooperation with Tang Contemporary Art Gallery
798 Art District, Beijing
AI WeiWei could express about European factory in Bangladesh in parralle to China . Germany in Greece for an exhibition about crisis ? or Germany in Bangladesh ? or Greece in Germany
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Commissioned by ZKM museum Karlsruhe artist Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel investigate Biennales ( as Biennalist ) .Wearing a colonial hat with german flag on TG investigate if the police has been cleaning the erea from immigrants just before the begining of Athens Biennale
more films :http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYfxHfBgPBBHthkXTAKTHwZyvxpdkmhIt
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- a group of 12 bronze animal heads based on 12 heads that adorned an 18th century clock-fountain in Beijing
AI WeiWei could express about European factory in Bangladesh in parralle to China . Germany in Greece for an exhibition about crisis ? or Germany in Bangladesh ? or Greece in Germany
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Commissioned by ZKM museum Karlsruhe artist Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel investigate Biennales ( as Biennalist ) .Wearing a colonial hat with german flag on TG investigate if the police has been cleaning the erea from immigrants just before the begining of Athens Biennale
more films :http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYfxHfBgPBBHthkXTAKTHwZyvxpdkmhIt
www.global-contemporary.de/en/world-time-the-world-as-tra...
Wang Family Ancestral Hall, Ming Dynasty
from Xiaoqi Village, Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province
Installation by Ai Weiwei
at Galleria Continua
in cooperation with Tang Contemporary Art Gallery
798 Art District, Beijing