Video: Installation from traditional Chinese stools from outrageous master Ai Weiwei
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The master of outrageous installations, world famous Chinese artist, architect and critic, Ai Weiwei prepared the installation "Bang" for the Venice Art Biennale 2013. The design is a single "organism" of 886 traditional Chinese hand-made stools.
At the last Biennale, Ai Weiwei represented Germany among three other artists from different countries. Besides Weiwei, this country was represented by Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng and Dayanita Singh. According to the curator of the German pavilion, Susanne Gaensheimer, the choice was not accidental: all these artists somehow influenced the "cultural landscape" of Germany, enriching and diversifying it. Gensheimer stressed that the aforementioned artists worked a lot on the territory of the country, and their works "create a kind of universal visual language by integrating personal experience into the international one."
The choice of the stool as the object for the installation was determined by the Chinese tradition, according to which every family should have at least one such stool. Often this particular piece of furniture was passed down from generation to generation. However, under the influence of the Cultural Revolution, wooden furniture practically disappeared from the daily life of modern Chinese people - it was replaced by plastic and aluminum products.
Gensheimer commented on Weiwei's installation: "The stool, as a component of a large structural composition, reads as a metaphor for the relationship of a person with an excessively bloated, all-encompassing system in our modern postmodern world, which is changing at a tremendous speed."
The artist was born in 1957 in Beijing in the family of the famous Chinese poet Ai Qing. In 1978, Weiwei entered the Beijing Film Academy, where he studied animation for several years. After a forced move to the USA, the artist enters the Parsons School of Design, where he is imbued with the ideas of pop art and conceptualism. In 1993, the artist returned to his homeland after learning about his father's illness. Due to political repression in 2011, the artist emigrated to Germany, and in May of the same year, the Royal Academy in Great Britain awarded Ai Weiwei the title of honorary academician.
Eboach designers Yon Ju Lee and Brian Brush have created an intricate structure of four hundred wooden outdoor chairs. Lee and Brush decided to make a fetish, an architectural event, an installation out of a chair, turning the ossified perception of this object upside down.
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