Ai Weiwei is likely one of the most well-known artists on this planet, however notorious to the Chinese language authorities. To them he’s an outspoken, essential troublemaker.
Eight years in the past, after a interval of imprisonment after which home arrest in Shanghai, he left China and now lives in Portugal, however his work is at all times about China and sometimes utilizing unusual objects and located supplies to touch upon his nation’s previous and current.
When he was two, the household was banished at first of the Cultural Revolution, to the Gobi desert in an effort to punish his father, then China’s most well-known poet, Ai Quing. For the primary 5 years of that banishment they lived in an underground gap, with no gentle warmth or water.
The doorway to the “hellhole” is the artist’s screensaver and likewise options in his new exhibition on the Design Museum in London, in a large lego brick depiction of his late father’s favorite portray of Monet’s Water Lilies.
Kirsty Wark met Ai Weiwei earlier than his exhibition opened.
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