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Artwork Specifications
2025
Sculpture - Polished, nickel-plated metal vase sculpture.
184
€1,300
£
€
$
Avant Arte
Specifications
2025
Sculpture - Polished, nickel-plated metal vase sculpture.
184
€1,300
£
€
$
Avant Arte
About The Artist
Chinese, b. 1957
Ai Weiwei is one of the bravest artists of our generation, and he uses politics and social commentary throughout his work. He is no stranger to speaking against repression and social injustice. His series A Study of Perspective is a perfect example of his disobedience against governments, commercialism, and places of aggression. These are themes that go throughout all his work, as he offers a reinterpretation of historical artefacts from his Coca-Cola vase series, which plays on ancient Chinese craftsmanship and modern consumerism, to his Water Lillies #1, which recreates Monet’s Water Lillies in Lego to pixelate and digitise the artwork.
Ai Weiwei’s use of iconic imagery and playful way of creating deep conversations around notions of the relationship between the individual and state power, cultural identity, censorship, and human rights are just some of the reasons his work will appeal to collectors and investors. You can purchase authenticated examples of the works through established galleries and auctions. When you purchase an Ai Weiwei artwork, you are not only purchasing an artwork, but a set of ideas that extend beyond the work.
Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957, the son of a prominent poet Ai Qing, who was exiled during the Anti-Rightist Movement in China. This context of Ai Weiwei’s work highlights his political surroundings, which inform his work. Rather than be scared of the regime and fall in line, Ai Weiwei has always taken a stance in his work since studying animation at the Beijing Film Academy, his move in the 1980s to New York and experiencing influences of Western conceptualism, Pop Art, and Dada.
Upon returning to China in the 1990s, Ai Weiwei became a key figure in the Chinese avant-garde, co-founding the experimental artist collective, Stars Group, and documenting urban change in Beijing via photography in part. Over these years, Ai Weiwei over time started to address issues of accountability, surveillance, migration, and the individual under power.
His major exhibits at museums such as Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Hirshhorn Museum, Mori Art Museum, have helped to create a cultural icon around the figure of Ai Weiwei. Similarly, in terms of how Ai expresses his activism, which has led to his being placed under house arrest, censoring by the Chinese state, and international notoriety - has only amplified the impact of his practice.
Chinese, b. 1957
Ai Weiwei is one of the bravest artists of our generation, and he uses politics and social commentary throughout his work. He is no stranger to speaking against repression and social injustice. His series A Study of Perspective is a perfect example of his disobedience against governments, commercialism, and places of aggression. These are themes that go throughout all his work, as he offers a reinterpretation of historical artefacts from his Coca-Cola vase series, which plays on ancient Chinese craftsmanship and modern consumerism, to his Water Lillies #1, which recreates Monet’s Water Lillies in Lego to pixelate and digitise the artwork.
Ai Weiwei’s use of iconic imagery and playful way of creating deep conversations around notions of the relationship between the individual and state power, cultural identity, censorship, and human rights are just some of the reasons his work will appeal to collectors and investors. You can purchase authenticated examples of the works through established galleries and auctions. When you purchase an Ai Weiwei artwork, you are not only purchasing an artwork, but a set of ideas that extend beyond the work.
Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957, the son of a prominent poet Ai Qing, who was exiled during the Anti-Rightist Movement in China. This context of Ai Weiwei’s work highlights his political surroundings, which inform his work. Rather than be scared of the regime and fall in line, Ai Weiwei has always taken a stance in his work since studying animation at the Beijing Film Academy, his move in the 1980s to New York and experiencing influences of Western conceptualism, Pop Art, and Dada.
Upon returning to China in the 1990s, Ai Weiwei became a key figure in the Chinese avant-garde, co-founding the experimental artist collective, Stars Group, and documenting urban change in Beijing via photography in part. Over these years, Ai Weiwei over time started to address issues of accountability, surveillance, migration, and the individual under power.
His major exhibits at museums such as Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Hirshhorn Museum, Mori Art Museum, have helped to create a cultural icon around the figure of Ai Weiwei. Similarly, in terms of how Ai expresses his activism, which has led to his being placed under house arrest, censoring by the Chinese state, and international notoriety - has only amplified the impact of his practice.