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Ai Weiwei: Unbroken - Gardiner Museum - Toronto - May 2019

21erHaus: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at

Tower build by ai wiewie at the documenta 2007 in kassel, germnay.

Build from old chinese windows from demolished houses, making space for ne buildings.

Post cards are available here for visitors to write letters to be delivered political prisoners around the world. Information about the prisoners can be found in binders at the tables.

21erHaus: Ai Weiwei - translocation – transformation (14.7. - 20.11.2016, Pressekonferenz) aiww.21erhaus.at | Foto: eSeL.at

Sunflower seeds - Ai Weiwei

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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Foto: Copyright Stiftung DKM / Frank-M. Fischer

Ai’s Treasure Box (2014) is a response to the treasure boxes that were highly prized during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1711-99) and Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en Valise (1935-41). The treasure boxes belonging to the Qianlong Emperor contained miniature replicas of favorite objects from the imperial collections as well as Western-imported curiosities.

 

Inspired by the Chinese imperial example and by Marcel Duchamp, Ai decided to make his own treasure box, uniting Chinese traditional woodworking with his one-meter cube series. For the skilled craftsmen with whom Ai has collaborated with for over twenty years, the Treasure Box presented a different challenge—the creation of a complicated structure with an illusionistic surface and moving components. The box does not contain miniature reproductions of Ai’s works as in the Duchamp Boîte en Valise—or objects from his collections as in the Emperor’s treasure box—rather, it stands on its own as an abstract structure.

 

Part of a series playing with the idea of cubic meters.

"blossom"

 

"...quietly transforms the utilitarian fixtures in several Hospital ward cells and medical offices into delicate porcelain bouquets"

Ai Weiwei: Unbroken - Gardiner Museum - Toronto - May 2019

Opening reception of “Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993”, September 4, 2014.

 

Photos by Michael R. Barrick, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

 

More information:

belkin.ubc.ca/?id=422

The Crystal Cube (2016)—which is possibly the world’s largest crystal object—creates fascinating reflections and distortions. Part of series playing with the idea of cubic meters.

Part of the Circle of Animals installation, in which the 12 Chinese horoscope animals were arranged, which is a reinterpretation of the destrayed Old Summer Palace near Beijing, that was demolished by French and English troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. Constructed in Lego.

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