Ai Weiwei
dal 17/4/2014 al 9/8/2014
Segnalato da
17/4/2014
Ai Weiwei
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
According to What? His works spotlight issues of freedom of expression, as well as individual and human rights both in China and globally. Many use minimal forms and methods, while others manipulate traditional furniture, and daily objects in ways that question cultural values and challenge political authority.
Curator Sharon Matt Atkins
Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. Featuring over thirty works spanning more than twenty years, Ai Weiwei: According to What? explores universal topics of culture, history, politics, and tradition, showcasing the artist’s remarkably interdisciplinary career as a photographer, sculptor, architect, and activist.
These works spotlight issues of freedom of expression, as well as individual and human rights both in China and globally. Many use minimal forms and methods, while others manipulate traditional furniture, ancient pottery, and daily objects in ways that question cultural values and challenge political authority.
Ai is best known for projects such as his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron on the 2008 Beijing Olympic National Stadium, as well as his embrace of the Internet and social media as a platform for his activism. Despite his arrest and eighty-one-day detention in 2011, Ai has continued to create art that transcends dualities between East and West.
Ai Weiwei: According to What? is organized by the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. It is curated by Mami Kataoka, Mori Art Museum Chief Curator, and the Brooklyn presentation is organized by Sharon Matt Atkins, Managing Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.
The Brooklyn presentation includes several major works not seen in previous venues and marks the first large-scale museum exhibition of Ai’s work in New York. Brooklyn is the final stop on the exhibition tour.
A new addition to the exhibition is S.A.C.R.E.D., a monumental work created in response to the artist’s 81-day incarceration by the Chinese authorities in 2011, making its first appearance in North America since it debuted at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Also new to the exhibition is Ye Haiyan, an installation of photographs and the personal belongings of a women’s rights activist who has been evicted from her home multiple times by the Chinese government.
The exhibition will include the artist’s work Colored Vases, which was recently vandalized while the exhibition was on view at the Pérez Museum in Miami.
This exhibition in Brooklyn has been made possible by Lisson Gallery, Mary Boone Gallery, the Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Galerie Urs Meile, and the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Exhibition Fund. Additional support is provided by the American Chai Trust for education and public programs.
Ai Weiwei is a conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and activist whose interdisciplinary practice examines the interrelations between art, society, and individual experience while exploring universal topics such as culture, history, politics, and tradition.
The artist is unable to travel because his passport has been confiscated by Chinese authorities.
Film Series
Saturday, April 19, 2014
In celebration of the exhibition, we’re holding special screenings of films about the artist throughout the afternoon.
Image: Ai Weiwei, 2012. Photo by Gao Yuan
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