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Rooster with Sydney background.
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.
Opening reception of “Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993”, September 4, 2014.
Photos by Michael R. Barrick, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
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Sadly, we didn't have time to visit his exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, but we did have coffee there and glimpsed this one.
The back wall of the gallery is covered in a deceptively decorative wallpaper, The Animal That Looks Like a Llama But is Really an Alpaca (2015). What from a distance looks like French eighteenth-century ormolu becomes, upon closer inspection, ominous arrays of surveillance cameras. During his years of domestic house arrest (2011–2015), the Chinese government surrounded Ai’s studio in Beijing with over twenty cameras, recording his activities twenty-four hours a day. He draws on his personal experience to comment on the encroaching surveillance state both in China and in the West. The beauty of the wallpaper design in contrast to its obscured sinister subject matter may allude to the deceptive sense of freedom that people can experience walking through the city, unaware that all of their movements and interactions are being watched at all times.
Rebar redone in marble. It commemorates the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008 which killed 90,000 people, including 5,300 children and 80% of buildings in the earthquake area collapsed. An unknown portion of this was due to corruption and shoddy construction.
Original photograph by Anya Dunaif for KidSpirit's Heroic Spirit issue. See her photos and the accompanying feature article here: kidspiritonline.com/2013/03/ai-weiwei-harnessing-the-powe...
Copyright 2013, KidSpirit, Inc.
LEGO portraits of 176 people from around the world who have been imprisoned or exiled because of their beliefs or affiliations, most of whom were still incarcerated at the time the artwork was made. Ai Weiwei has called them “heroes of our time.” www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
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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Convidado: Ai Weiwei, artista e ativista chinês
Data: 08 de outubro de 2018
Local: Salão de Atos da UFRGS
Crédito das imagens: Fronteiras do Pensamento / Luiz Munhoz
The back wall of the gallery is covered in a deceptively decorative wallpaper, The Animal That Looks Like a Llama But is Really an Alpaca (2015). What from a distance looks like French eighteenth-century ormolu becomes, upon closer inspection, ominous arrays of surveillance cameras. During his years of domestic house arrest (2011–2015), the Chinese government surrounded Ai’s studio in Beijing with over twenty cameras, recording his activities twenty-four hours a day. He draws on his personal experience to comment on the encroaching surveillance state both in China and in the West. The beauty of the wallpaper design in contrast to its obscured sinister subject matter may allude to the deceptive sense of freedom that people can experience walking through the city, unaware that all of their movements and interactions are being watched at all times.
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
Follow @aiww
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
Follow @aiww
Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Château La Coste
Vernissage de l'exposition " Mountains and Seas" Ai Weiwei (8 avril/17 juin 2017)
The Wednesday morning bike ride, took a short detour to #WashingtonSquarePark to visit the Ai Weiwei 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors' park installation.
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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
Follow @aiww
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.