BEIJING (EFE) .- The artist Ai Weiwei was given yesterday bath crowds at the opening of his first solo exhibition in China, with which it returns to the art scene in his native country he was removed by the authorities five years ago.
The reconstruction of a temple more than 400 years of history of the Ming Dynasty was the pick of the versatile Ai (Beijing, 1957), also famous for its peculiar political and social activism for his debut in a solo exhibition with his work in China, since until now only had participated in group exhibitions.
However, it was his presence more than their jobs, which captured the attention in the two galleries in Beijing, the Continuous and Tang Contemporary Art, which together host the exhibition titled his name, “Ai Weiwei”.
Warm welcome
The artist, It now become star, received the warmth of his legion of followers, manifested in the form of bouquets, congratulations or encouragement.
In return, Ai distributed greetings, hugs, occasional kiss, selfis, above all, hundreds of selfis, those who asked about fans who crowded forming a crowd around waiting for the turn to take a picture with him.
These displays of affection are explained partly because see the artist walking through his works exhibited in Beijing has become an outstanding event in recent years.
Ai, which gained popularity in China for its contribution to the design of the Olympic Stadium Beijing (“The Nest”), was set apart from the Chinese art scene just over four years ago for its clashes with the communist regime.
Her activism and criticism of the Chinese government have earned international recognition as an artist committed, but also have cost the reproach of the ruling and detention, first, and movement, then.
After his arrest in April 2011 at the airport in Beijing, Ai spent 81 arrested for “inciting subversion against the state”, although he was later charged with several economic crimes
Then, the artist spent a year under house arrest until days in June 2012 will allowed to leave the house, but not the country be investigated for bigamy, pornography and illegal exchange of foreign currency.
So over the years has not gone to the many exhibitions of his work that is They have performed abroad, including “Sunflower Seeds 2010″ installation, comprising half a ton of sunflower seeds made of porcelain, at the Monastery of La Cartuja in Seville, a premiere in Spain that followed the “On the exhibition Table “in Barcelona a year later.
It was perhaps their marginalization in China, where his name is censored in the popular social network Weibo (the local equivalent of Twitter), which has given the final push in the international scene.
The work of Ai came to the prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco (USA) late last year with “Large” a set that displayed traditional Chinese elements like porcelain flowers or dragon-shaped kites in the rooms of the prison and in September will star in a retrospective at the Royal Academy in London.
“Ai Weiwei has many solo exhibitions abroad, but here, where live and grew up, he had not had any yet. It means a lot to him, “he told Efe the curator of the exhibition opened in Beijing, Cui Cancan, for whom it is” not only the most important artist of China, but throughout the world. “
its 58 years has given free rein to their creativity in the most varied ways possible-from becoming the star of “Big Brother” and hang the recorded videos on the Internet during his house arrest, to bring to market an album “heavy metal” .
Accompanying this monumental centerpiece a figure of a dragon, a collection of vases, a crystal chandelier and a painted mirror.
In any case, says Ai Weiwei in a statement, the exhibits do not matter, since their intention with the exhibition opened in Beijing was another-”I wanted to make a statement, I’m doing an exhibition in China”.
At a glance
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After the clash with China’s Communist regime, Ai Weiwei returned to his country in exhibition entitled his name.
His pieces
The work is a gigantic structure with pillars and beams of a family temple, vases and a figure of a dragon.
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