Ai Weiwei – Karen Smith; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Bernhard Fibicher Flitsaanbieding

The first monograph on the key figure in Chinese fast-growing art scene.
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is truly an artist for the twenty-first century. In his sculptures he refashions artefacts and antiques into surprising, sometimes monumental constructions such as Template (2007): hundreds of wooden doors and windows taken from demolished Ming and Qing dynasty temples and arranged into a massive outdoor sculpture. As much as these materials look to the past, they also speak of the present, because never before (and …