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Ai Weiwei : disposition / [executive editor and curator, Maurizio Bortolotti ; editor, Ossian Ward ; authors, Ai Weiwei ... [et al.]].
- Title
- Ai Weiwei : disposition / [executive editor and curator, Maurizio Bortolotti ; editor, Ossian Ward ; authors, Ai Weiwei ... [et al.]].
- Author
- Ai, Weiwei
- Publication
- London ; Cologne : Koenig Books, c2014.
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- Description
- 193 p. (2 fold.) : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- This new Ai Weiwei (born 1957) monograph is published on the occasion of his exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, presented by Zuecca Project Space and the Lisson Gallery, and offers a summary of the artist's work between 2008 and 2013. It focuses on two projects, Straight (2008-2012) and S.A.C.R.E.D. (2011-2013). Straight is an installation employing more than 100 tons of steel rods recovered by a team of volunteers from buildings destroyed in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. Responding both to the tragedy itself and the government's apathy, Ai Weiwei and his team straightened the bars and created a modular installation with the bars laid flat on the floor. S.A.C.R.E.D. is comprised of six metal containers depicting the often humiliating routines of the artist's 2011 imprisonment on a reduced scale, with models of Ai and his guards. These routines include showering, toilet and interrogation.
- Alternative Title
- Disposition
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- On the occasion of the exhibitions "Straight", held at Zuecca Project Space on Giudecca, Venice, and "S.A.C.R.E.D.", held at Church of Sant'Antonin, Venice; both held as a collateral event of the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, May 29 - September 14, 2013.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Alessandro Possati and Greg Hilty -- Introduction / Maurizio Bortolotti -- The passion of Ai : on the politics and sacredness of suffering / Philip Tinari -- Straight. Documents: Sichuan Earthquake ; Silent holiday ; Truth. Responsiblity. Rights ; Volunteers of the citizens' investigation ; These days I can't believe anything you say ; Citizens' investigation ; Investigation results ; Memorial day ; Victims of the Sichuan Earthquake -- Straight / Greg Hilty -- Production team for Straight -- Straight, Zuecca Project Space, 29 May--15 September 2013 -- S.A.C.R.E.D. -- Ai Weiwei's 81-day detention -- Tweets from @aiww -- Rubble and dinosaurs / Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Ai Weiwei, 23 November 2013 -- S.A.C.R.E.D. / Greg Hilty -- Production team for S.A.C.R.E.D. -- Sant'Antonin : opening doors / Gianmatteo Caputo -- S.A.C.R.E.D., Sant'Antonin, 29 May--15 September 2013 -- Timeline : events in contemporary Chinese history, Ai Weiwei life events, [and] Ai Weiwei selected works -- Biographies.
- ISBN
- 9783863355593 (hd.bd.)
- 3863355598 (hd.bd.)
- OCLC
- 881612194
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library