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Finally made time to photograph Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze' installed along the Rose Kennedy Greenway before it leaves at the end of the month. Just amazing. Boston is very fortunate to be able to exhibit such works. Thanks to everyone in the city who made this possible.
Based upon from traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures of Yuanming Yuan's fountain-clock which were pillaged in 1860 by French and British troops.
The sculpture Grapes (2017), which references Ai's history of altering furniture, reassembles the stools into a completely different shape but uses the original structural logic so that it remains true to its original form. It provides a graceful and whimsical counterpoint to the accumulation of the 5,929 stools.
der chinesische künstler ai weiwei wurde während der installation seiner ausstellung "so sorry" vom haus der kunst zum oktoberfest eingeladen.
Ai Weiwei
Stainless Steel
Ai Weiwei's groupings of stainless-steel bikes - configured in ever-expanding modular shapes and layers of geometrically stacked and fused individual frames, to create one larger structure - refer to the famous 'Forever' brand of bicycles that have been mass-manufactured in Shanghai since 1940. Once ubiquitous, this classic marque and indeed the perceived profusion of pushbikes on Beijing streets are now steadily dying out, to be replaced by cars. This irony is not lost on Ai or in the title of this series, which can incorporate as few as two bicycles and as many as 3,000. As in other works by Ai, not only does this multiplication suggest a congregation of people or a massing of humanity, but the underlying concepts of assembling, repeating and copying also play an important role, as does the lasting influence of Marcel Duchamp.
[Sculpture in the City]
Finally made time to photograph Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze' installed along the Rose Kennedy Greenway before it leaves at the end of the month. Just amazing. Boston is very fortunate to be able to exhibit such works. Thanks to everyone in the city who made this possible.
Based upon from traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures of Yuanming Yuan's fountain-clock which were pillaged in 1860 by French and British troops.
Finally made time to photograph Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze' installed along the Rose Kennedy Greenway before it leaves at the end of the month. Just amazing. Boston is very fortunate to be able to exhibit such works. Thanks to everyone in the city who made this possible.
Based upon from traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures of Yuanming Yuan's fountain-clock which were pillaged in 1860 by French and British troops.