It's amazing the work that is now installed in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, that huge atrium open to the creativity of artists and where they have been as spectacular as assemblies of Miroslaw Balka Carten or Hoeller. It turns out that the Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei has come up with the idea of \u200b\u200bfilling it with a hundred million sunflower made of porcelain, a true "work of Chinese" in 1600 who helped craft, which have been painted by hand one by one each little seed for two years.
is a work that allows full interaction with the public. Because the thing not stay in visual awe that can cause 1000 square meters filled with pipes, but the main thing is that people walk on them, touch them, lie down ... and even removes some of remembrance, although not to recommend the Tate. But now what's the big pipe? As well as aiming a direct call to the senses of the public, the idea has emerged from the evocation of China Cultural Revolution, when peasants evaded while eating pipes were represented by the propaganda like sunflowers to the sun worship Mao.
And Ai Weiwei has always tried to aerate the repression suffered in China by the communist regime and try to do something raise awareness on this issue, among other reasons because his father, the great Chinese poet Ai Quin, was harshly punished and banished to the most inhospitable country. So, helped design the national stadium of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, hoping that this would be a step towards democratization, but then refused to have anything to do with the project in view of the great farce organized by the government, its unwillingness to change. His art is heavily influenced by Dadaism and Pop Art, his most famous being the series of photographs that appear breaking a vase ancient Han Dynasty As a symbol of the liberation of cultural identity, or photographs that you see his hand with the middle finger extended in places like Tiananmen or White House. If you want to know more about this interesting artist, I recommend this report in El Pais .
is a work that allows full interaction with the public. Because the thing not stay in visual awe that can cause 1000 square meters filled with pipes, but the main thing is that people walk on them, touch them, lie down ... and even removes some of remembrance, although not to recommend the Tate. But now what's the big pipe? As well as aiming a direct call to the senses of the public, the idea has emerged from the evocation of China Cultural Revolution, when peasants evaded while eating pipes were represented by the propaganda like sunflowers to the sun worship Mao.
And Ai Weiwei has always tried to aerate the repression suffered in China by the communist regime and try to do something raise awareness on this issue, among other reasons because his father, the great Chinese poet Ai Quin, was harshly punished and banished to the most inhospitable country. So, helped design the national stadium of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, hoping that this would be a step towards democratization, but then refused to have anything to do with the project in view of the great farce organized by the government, its unwillingness to change. His art is heavily influenced by Dadaism and Pop Art, his most famous being the series of photographs that appear breaking a vase ancient Han Dynasty As a symbol of the liberation of cultural identity, or photographs that you see his hand with the middle finger extended in places like Tiananmen or White House. If you want to know more about this interesting artist, I recommend this report in El Pais .
(Via ABC )
Update (15/10/2010): Oh dear. I just found out that you can no longer step on the pipes because the dust off due to the large influx of visitors is damaging health. A pity.
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