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Ai Weiwei

A Chinese artist i Weiwei born in 1957 presented in October in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, an installation called "Sunflower Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, consisting of 100 million sunflower spread over an area of \u200b\u200b1000 square meters, forming a layer of 10 cm thick. The seeds are ceramic and are hand made and painted by more than 1600 artisans, following ancient craft processes.
The artist claims that visitors to pass through this area reflect on individualism, globalization, totalitarianism, power and other concepts that should be discussed as Ai in China today.
The uniformity of millions of tiny entities equal differences contains unique handcrafted items. Besides being, sunflower seed, very popular among the Chinese, is to make a critical reference to Mao who liked to be depicted as a sun surrounded by sunflowers. Ai Weiwei
is the son of Ai Qing, one of the best poets of the century chinosd XX, which was victimized for having an overly individualistic view of art. Ai spent his childhood in a small isolated village where his father was a ban on publishing his poems and was forced to perform degrading work.
From Young Ai Weiwei had a rebellious spirit against the Chinese regime's atrocities. His work is built around the struggle for the Chinese people to reach freedom.
the Beijing Olympics in 2008, collaborated with the architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron in building the Olympic Stadium Bird's Nest, but did not attend the inauguration in protest of the partisan use of games by the government.
Following their continued criticism of the state has been arrested several times. The last few days ago, following the explicit prohibition that does not organize a party at his studio, to "celebrate" it will be demolished in the coming days, in retaliation for their belligerence against the power .

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