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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
"From a very young age I started to sense than an individual has to set an example in society. Your own acts and behaviour tell the world who you are and at the same time what kind of society you think it should be." – 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.
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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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.