My review of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts focuses on Ai as a political artist. It is an obvious thing to do – Ai Weiwei is an activist artist. Not an activist or an artist, but both. For me it is important to underline this point because many theorists, and also…
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Art is not an end, art is only the beginning
I went to London to see art. You all know my involvement with Agnes Martin. But I actually planned my visit so that it coincided with the grand opening of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts. From the exhibition at RA: Straight, (2008-12), steel reinforcing bars In the background: Names of the Student…
back home
This weekend I will finish my final 2014 art-review. The last six months have been a great work-experience. I have seen a lot of exhibitions, both in Norway and abroad. I have written & been published. And I have, for the first time, received competent & thorough editorial feedback along the way (the value of good editors…
Blossom
Bathroom Fixtures at Alcatraz Transformed into Porcelain Floral Bouquets by Ai Weiwei photo by Jan Sturman
ai weiwei
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is still in detention in his home in Beijing, but even so, he finds several ways to communicate with the world. And he has a number of shows going on in the West at all times, even if he himself is unable to leave his home. @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz September…
lost in a field of near copies
individual, and yet each lost in a field of near copies … Ai Weiwei, Stools (2014) © Ai Weiwei individual, and yet each lost in a field of near copies — it could have been a definition of us, mankind, but is in fact a description used about…
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