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Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is the most widely known Chinese contemporary artist in the West, and his 2017 work "Odyssey" is perhaps the most important piece in the "Chinese Summer" exhibit at the Astrup-Fearnley Museum. "It is a wallpaper" depicting episodes and events affecting refugees and individuals fleeing war from times present and past.
Ai Wei Wei crafted many porcelain flowers to be placed inside the plumbing fixtures of the hospital cells on Alcatraz.
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.
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
Buddhist triads of this type would have been placed in temples or family shrines for worship. The central figure of Shakyamuni Buddha is depicted with his hands resting on his lap in the gesture of dhanaya, the mudra or pose of
meditation. He is attended by two bodhisattv as
enlightened beings who chose to remain on earth to help mortals attain enlightenment.
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