Ai weiwei hans ulrich obrist biography
'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most.!
Ai Weiwei on How He Overcame His Harrowing Origins to Become an International Art Star
An artist who needs little introduction, Ai Weiwei is unquestionably one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists working today.
He’s inspired generations of artists the world over for his dissident political activism as much as his omnivorous approach to art, and, apparently no amount of arrests or censorship can stop him. In this comprehensive interview with the famed “supercurator” Hans Ulrich Obrist excerpted from Phaidon’sAi Weiwei, the artist delves deep into his own origins, detailing the bumpy road to making art history.
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Can you tell me about your childhood and how it all started—your awakening as an artist.
Ai Weiwei: Well, I was born in 1957.
In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic life.
My father, Ai Qing, was a poet. As I was growing up he was criticized as a writer and punished and sent away to the Gobi desert in the northwest. So I basically spent sixteen years of my chi
