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Ai Weiwei
Born in Beijing in 1957, Ai Weiwei is a multidisciplinary artist, architect, photographer, designer, critic and activist, son of the noted Chinese poet Ai Qing, himself a studnet of avant-garde theory in Paris between 1929 and 1932. Qing, a major influence on Weiwei's way of thinking
A cultural figure of international renown, Ai Weiwei is an activist, architect, curator, filmmaker and China's most famous artist. Open in his criticism of the Chinese government, Ai was detained for months in 2011 and then released under house arrest. "I don't see myself as a dissident artist," he says. “I see them as a dissident government!” Some of Ai's best-known works are installations, which often lean towards the conceptual and provocative dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese ways of thinking and production. For Sunflower Seeds (2010) at the Tate Modern, he distributed 100 million porcelain "seeds" hand-painted by 1600 Chinese artis
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Alison Klayman
— That week, because I follow him on Twitterand we often would write to each other on Twitter, I was seeing how the police started coming to his house. They came one day, and then a second night, and then the next morning, too, so they came a total of three times to check documents. Weiwei was posting the pictures of them visiting and said it seemed like they were really into checking the foreigners’ papers, but they were also checking the papers of workers, volunteers and people who lived there. And that did seem a little bit of a cause for concern, considering how many times they came. But Weiwei just discussed it on Twitter, he just followed what he always does and was very open about it.
We spoke after the PBS programme aired, and he was excited that people online seemed to really like it, and that they were sharing it. And I don’t know if he actually watched it, because I know when I talked to him he had said it was loading too slow, and I sent h
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NOWNESS
This week the work of kinesisk artist Ai Weiwei, photographed by Hugo Tillman above, is on view on both sides of the Atlantic, from his bronze "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" sculpture at New York's Pulitzer Fountain, to his nature-inspired "Rock" installation in Berlin's Neugerriemschneider gallery, to a new retrospective at London's Lisson Gallery. With the global tribute comes international concern for the social activist, who has been missing since being detained bygd Chinese authorities at Beijing Airport on April 3. Protests have been mounted around the world to demand the release of the artist, best known for co-designing the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing and for ambitious installations such as gods year's "Sunflower Seeds" at the Tate Modern, which filled the museum's Turbine Hall with 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds. "Weiwei has always maintained that each individual has to set an example in gemenskap. Your own acts tell the world who you are