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New installation by a Chinese dissident
The exhibition, which runs from April 3 to July 7, 2014, will undoubtedly attract thousands of visitors to the museum. Accused by the Chinese government of criminal political activity, Ai Weiwei is not allowed to travel outside China. He expresses his personal experience of the Communist government’s repression through the artworks he creates in his Beijing studio.
Famous Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei presented his latest exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin. "Evidence" is a set of more than 6,000 wooden stools dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties that the artist collected from Chinese villages. Ai Weiwei's installation is quite unusual, however, as always - thousands of antique chairs stand tightly side by side inside the museum's huge atrium. As the artist himself told in an interview with the press, in this way he wanted to show individuality in the conditions of the current mass-produced faceless plastic products. As for the title of the exhibition, “Evidence,” the artist claims that “he just wants to prove the truth.”
"Evidence" is at least an expansive exhibition, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters and 18 rooms throughout the museum. This is Weiwei’s largest solo exhibition to date, and it is a brand new art created specifically for the Berlin Museum. The most famous installation of the Chinese at the moment is “Bikes”, an unforgettable collection of thousands of fastened together and suspended in the air bicycles.
In addition, the exhibition showcases “Souvenirs from Shanghai” – structures made of brick and wooden frames of the structure, which were created after the Chinese government destroyed the Chinese artist’s studio Shanghai Studio. There is also a marble map of Diaoyo Island and a number of busts of animals symbolizing the Chinese Zodiac. As is typical for all installations of the artist, in each element of the exhibitions you can trace his tumultuous relationship with Weiwei’s home country – China.
Source: www.ecobyt.ru/
Famous Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei presented his latest exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin. "Evidence" is a set of more than 6,000 wooden stools dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties that the artist collected from Chinese villages. Ai Weiwei's installation is quite unusual, however, as always - thousands of antique chairs stand tightly side by side inside the museum's huge atrium. As the artist himself told in an interview with the press, in this way he wanted to show individuality in the conditions of the current mass-produced faceless plastic products. As for the title of the exhibition, “Evidence,” the artist claims that “he just wants to prove the truth.”
"Evidence" is at least an expansive exhibition, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters and 18 rooms throughout the museum. This is Weiwei’s largest solo exhibition to date, and it is a brand new art created specifically for the Berlin Museum. The most famous installation of the Chinese at the moment is “Bikes”, an unforgettable collection of thousands of fastened together and suspended in the air bicycles.
In addition, the exhibition showcases “Souvenirs from Shanghai” – structures made of brick and wooden frames of the structure, which were created after the Chinese government destroyed the Chinese artist’s studio Shanghai Studio. There is also a marble map of Diaoyo Island and a number of busts of animals symbolizing the Chinese Zodiac. As is typical for all installations of the artist, in each element of the exhibitions you can trace his tumultuous relationship with Weiwei’s home country – China.
Source: www.ecobyt.ru/