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| So Sorry - Ai Wei-Wei |
So Sorry
12 October 2009 - 17 January 2010
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Ai Wei-Wei (born 1957) is regarded as the most important contemporary Chinese artist. his project ‘fairytale’, a crowd-puller at the 2007 Documenta in Kassel, brought Ai international fame: for ‘fairytale’ he had 1001 Chinese flown in; it was the largest project that has ever been created for the Documenta.
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For his artworks Ai initially appropriates objects – such as thousand-year-old Chinese antiquities or spiritual artifacts – in order to then transform them; he thereby rids them of their original meaning and places them into new contexts. Ai’s works pointedly pose the question of how old and new can coexist, what the new qualities of tradition might look like and how china behaves with regard to itself. To Ai Wei-Wei the Haus der Kunst represents an important place for reflection because of its complex and difficult past: Ai strongly criticizes china’s political leadership and demands an end to censorship analyzing the conditions in which authoritarian regimes and cultural dictatorships exist. Ai Wei-Wei occupies almost the entire building, including its façade, with own artifacts and performative installations that refer to the past, present and future of china.
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| Thousands of children died during the earthquake 2008 in China - the government never told the exact nmber. Ai Wei Wei deciorated the Haus der Kunst with thousands of backpacks, protesting against censorship in China.
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| Destroying the old, creating something new, without asking the people - an everyday-fact in China.
Sculpture made of doors and windows from six centuries.
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| Wooden trunks and roots, placed in the central exhibition hall on a carpet that imitates the stonefloor. The impression is not to tell.
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