Ai Weiwei

Chung Yuk Yu 51804978Leung Wing Tak 51209680

Yuen Shuk Fan 51809163SM 4146 Portfolio & Practicum 2011 SemB

Content

• Introduction

• History

• Awards

• Recent Activities

• Reference

Ai Weiwei (艾未未 )• born 1957, Beijing• Chinese artist, curator,

architectural designer, social commentator, and activist.

• Influenced by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, he began to critically address artistic traditions and conventions.

• marked by a pursuit of honesty• famed for his tongue in cheek criticisms, his satires of

traditional culture and his unending social responsibilitywith his witty and iconoclastic sculptures, performances, photographs and installations.

History• In 1978, founder of the early avant garde art group the "Stars“

• Comments and activities for the liberty of speech

• In 1993, establish the experimental artists' Beijing East Village published a series of three books about this new generation of artists: Black Cover Book (1994), White Cover Book (1995), and Gray Cover Book (1997)

• In 2006,designed a private residence in the Hudson River Valley of Upstate New York - interviewed by the New York Timeshttp://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/02/09/world/asia/1247466947801/an-interview-with-ai-weiwei.html

• In 2010, Wallpaper (magazine) nominated the home for its Wallpaper Design Awards category

• artistic consultant for design for the Beijing National Stadium(Bird’s Nest) for the 2008 Olympics

• In 2008,Ai Weiwei supported an investigation into student asualties in the Sichuan earthquake

- exhibition “So sorry” in Munich

The NewYork Times interview with himhttp://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/02/09/world/asia/1247466947801/an-interview-with-ai-weiwei.html

Awards

• In 2010 Ai Weiwei received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Faculty of Politics and Social Science, University of Gent, Belgium.

• Received Das Glas der Vernunft (The Prism of Reason), Kassel Citizen Award, Kassel, Germany.

• ranked 13 in Art Review's guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art

Recently• November 2010, Ai was placed under house arrest by the Chinese police• to prevent the planned party to mark the demolition of his newly built

Shanghai studio from taking place• the government said the newly-completed studio would be knocked down

because it was illegal• In the end, the party took place without Weiwei's presence; his supporters

feasted on river crab, an allusion to "harmony"

•An asteroid 83598 named Ai Weiwei•Praise his achievements

Reference

• http://www.daylife.com/topic/Ai_Weiwei• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei• http://video.nytimes.com/video/

2010/02/09/world/asia/1247466947801/an-interview-with-ai-weiwei.html

• http://newsflavor.com/world/asia/ai-weiwei-a-famous-chinese-artist-is-under-house-arrest/