In September 2015, Ai Weiwei is at the Royal Academy of Arts with his provocative and curious new works.
Ai Weiwei is certainly one of the globally recognized and sensational artists. Artnews indicates him as one of the top 5 people in its Top 100 list of Art’s Most Influential Individuals. As Barnaby Martin in his recent book titled “Hanging Man: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei” describes, the artist was arrested at the Beijing Airport in 2011 and was released only after 81 days. Weiwei who again reacts with art to the injustices he goes through, deserves attention with his works that criticize the absence of freedom of thought in China, in addition to other works with his unique and authentic artistic language.
This is Weiwei’s first institutional retrospective in the UK after he acquired fame with the sunflowers he exhibited at Tate Modern. The exhibition curated in collaboration with the artist himself features some of his most important works ranging from gigantic installations realized in 1993 to marble objects he created departing from his own experiences and where he focuses on issues such as creative freedom, human rights and censorship. The event can be visited until December 13 at the Royal Academy of Arts.
