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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
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His work is part of Presidio Habitats through May 15th
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Protests in other cities
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International 1001 Chairs fb page
www.facebook.com/pages/1001-Chairs-for-Ai-WeiWei/17541235...
San Francisco FB event page
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161408713920430
baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/detained-chinese-artist-r...
www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Ai_Weiwei/AiWeiwei_01.html
His work is part of Presidio Habitats through May 15th
www.for-site.org/presidioHabitats/artist.php?code=1
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/04/ai-weiwe...
blog.ted.com/2011/04/04/ai-weiwei-detained-here-is-his-te...
newamericamedia.org/2011/04/release-ai-weiwei-an-overseas...
Protests in other cities
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/17/protesters-ca...
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/17/worldupdate...
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/17/ai-weiwei-pro...
www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeldvideo.php?id=2135&-AiWei...
media.theage.com.au/hong-kong-protests-to-free-ai-weiwei-...
Tiger.
This new series of Zodiac works is composed from thousands of plastic LEGO bricks. The set of twelve works incorporates imagery from two well-known series by the artist. The twelve LEGO Zodiac animal heads deriving from his sculpture series Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads (2010) are overlaid onto twelve landscapes and monuments from Ai’s Study of Perspective (1995–2003) series of photographs. Ai has been employing LEGO bricks as an artistic medium since 2007. He appreciates how LEGO is accessible to everyone, especially young people. His use of LEGO components is a response to the pixelated structure of digital images.
Through Sunday, Feb 24 at Hirshorn in Washington, DC
www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/ai-weiwei-according-to-what/
Ai Wei Wei Never Sorry on PBS starting Feb 25 (check local listings)
www.pbs.org/independentlens/ai-weiwei/
aiweiweineversorry.com (DVD, online)
Indianapolis Museum of Art April 5-July 21, 2013
www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/ai-weiwei-according-what
Aug 17 - Oct. 27, 2013 art gallery of Ontario
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Ai Weiwei: Tree 2009-10
In this work centuries old tree trunks and branches from the mountain regions of southern China have been reassembled into one tree using a traditional Chinese interlocking building method. Conceived as an attempt ”to imagine what the tree looked like”, the sculpture has also been read as a commentary by Ai on the modern Chinese state, a territory and culturally diverse expanse whose sovereignty is promoted by the country’s official “ One China” policy.
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www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Ai_Weiwei/AiWeiwei_01.html
His work is part of Presidio Habitats through May 15th
www.for-site.org/presidioHabitats/artist.php?code=1
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/04/ai-weiwe...
blog.ted.com/2011/04/04/ai-weiwei-detained-here-is-his-te...
newamericamedia.org/2011/04/release-ai-weiwei-an-overseas...
Protests in other cities
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/17/protesters-ca...
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/17/worldupdate...
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/17/ai-weiwei-pro...
www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeldvideo.php?id=2135&-AiWei...
media.theage.com.au/hong-kong-protests-to-free-ai-weiwei-...
www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/ai-weiwei-according-to-what/
aiweiwei.com
Indianapolis Museum of Art April 5-July 21, 2013
www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/ai-weiwei-according-what
Aug 17 - Oct. 27, 2013 art gallery of Ontario
Ai Wei Wei Never Sorry may still be on PBS (check local listings)
www.pbs.org/independentlens/ai-weiwei/
aiweiweineversorry.com (DVD, online)
Follow @aiww
International 1001 Chairs fb page
www.facebook.com/pages/1001-Chairs-for-Ai-WeiWei/17541235...
San Francisco FB event page
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161408713920430
baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/detained-chinese-artist-r...
www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Ai_Weiwei/AiWeiwei_01.html
His work is part of Presidio Habitats through May 15th
www.for-site.org/presidioHabitats/artist.php?code=1
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/04/ai-weiwe...
blog.ted.com/2011/04/04/ai-weiwei-detained-here-is-his-te...
newamericamedia.org/2011/04/release-ai-weiwei-an-overseas...
Protests in other cities
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/17/protesters-ca...
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/17/worldupdate...
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/17/ai-weiwei-pro...
www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeldvideo.php?id=2135&-AiWei...
media.theage.com.au/hong-kong-protests-to-free-ai-weiwei-...
Stools (2013), comprising 5,929 wooden stools from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties and the Republican period, gathered from villages across northern China. The accumulation of individual stools forms a 72-foot square, creating an enormous variegated surface. Very few of these stools remain in Chinese households today, but they were once a ubiquitous staple of domestic life. Each stool reveals traces of use and evokes the experience of generations of lives. Ai Weiwei admires the stools for their simple design and solid structure, a design language that remained unchanged for thousands of years.
International 1001 Chairs fb page
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San Francisco FB event page
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baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/detained-chinese-artist-r...
www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Ai_Weiwei/AiWeiwei_01.html
His work is part of Presidio Habitats through May 15th
www.for-site.org/presidioHabitats/artist.php?code=1
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/04/ai-weiwe...
blog.ted.com/2011/04/04/ai-weiwei-detained-here-is-his-te...
newamericamedia.org/2011/04/release-ai-weiwei-an-overseas...
Protests in other cities
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/17/protesters-ca...
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/17/worldupdate...
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/17/ai-weiwei-pro...
www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeldvideo.php?id=2135&-AiWei...
media.theage.com.au/hong-kong-protests-to-free-ai-weiwei-...
The sculpture Grapes (2017), which references Ai's history of altering furniture, reassembles the stools into a completely different shape but uses the original structural logic so that it remains true to its original form. It provides a graceful and whimsical counterpoint to the accumulation of the 5,929 stools.
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
Ai Weiwei has been having fun giving the middle finger to famous monuments around the world including the White House and the Eiffel Tower. He has earned the right to do so.
A crowded city hall during Nuit Blanche 2013
More photos of the event: susandrysdale.com/nuit-blanche-toronto-2013/
21erHaus: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at
Chinese artist Ai WeiWei is bringing 1,001 of his compatriots to Germany to take part in the Documenta art show. The live exhibits, who will form an installation called "Fairytale,"
i am one of "Fairytale".
at end of April,i go to Beijing for German VISA.this is the first time i saw him,just as photos show.
i'll go to Kassel at 4th,July.