'I’m very interested in these so-called useless objects.' As part of a collaboration with art21, watch Ai Weiwei describe how he chooses a format for pointed critiques:
On a spring morning back in 2011, then-mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg welcomed visitors to the Chinese artists first major public sculpture project in Grand Army Plaza, near Central Park. The momentous occasion was marred of course, by the artist’s inability to attend the opening—because he was in the midst of an 81-day long incarceration by the Chinese government.
A staunch activist who makes no compromises, despite ongoing threats of surveillance and censorship even after his release from imprisonment, Weiwei’s art blends traditional Chinese imagery with contemporary concerns for human rights and social issues.
. As for the security camera, “surveillance has a very clear meaning. This is to monitor, or secretly monitor, people’s behavior. But once it’s become marble, it’s only being watched.” The exhibition in Kettle’s Yard explores themes of authenticity and globalization, which are on display in the artist’s juxtaposition of historic Chinese objects purchased at auction alongside replicas from later years, often indistinguishable from one another. In other cases, the artist’s own works, created in the manner of similar vessels, blur the definition of original, as in the.
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