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Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
COLOURED HOUSE, 2013
Wood, paint, crystal glass
This house once belonged to a prosperous family in Zhejiang province, in Eastern China, during the early Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911 CE). The timber frame follows a traditional post-and-beam system. Most houses of this period have been demolished, giving this structure a ghostly quality.
Artist Ai Weiwei rescued the house from destruction and has painted the house with industrial colours, combining ancient and modern, and installed it on crystal bases-giving presence and status to this unlikely survivor.
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Timbers rescued from chinese temples are reconfigured: from above they map out China, but as you wander beneath them you wouldn't know that. Tieli (iron) wood was traditionally used for these load bearing beams. It was so sought after that the trees are now no more.
El artista Ai Weiwei está exponiendo desde el mes de julio su obra “La poética de la libertad” en Cuenca. Todo un privilegio poder disfrutar una vez más de una de sus instalaciones, esta vez tan cerca y en una ciudad apropiada para este tipo de acontecimientos. La instalación mues...
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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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
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
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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Ai's destruction of historical objects is problematic in my view, but the message he uses them to tell - or to put it another way, the themes he addresses and questions he raises - makes up for it to a certain extent.
These are some of my favorite kinds of works - asking people to think about how tradition is being trampled, destroyed, or simply forgotten, for the sake of modernity. What is China? Who are "we" Chinese?