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Tate Modern commissions Ai Weiwei
The Guardian reports that artist and activist Ai Weiwei is the 11th artist commissioned to fill Tate Modern’s massive Turbine Hall. The Beijing-based artist’s contribution to the Turbine Hall, one of the UK’s most anticipated public art commissions, follows in a line of such celebrated installations in the past like Olafur Ellasson’s “Weather Project” (2004) and Miroslaw Balka’s “How it is” (2009).
Director of Tate Modern, Vicente Todolí, said Ai's works were "compelling" and "among the most socially engaged works of art being made today […] It will be thrilling to see how he responds to the vast, public environment of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern this October."
Flash Art has recently covered multiple stories that highlight Ai Weiwei’s political engagement and opposition to actions and policies of the Chinese government, including Ai’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about internet censorship – click here
and a recent attack on an artists’ community on the outskirts of Beijing by real estate developers.
click here
www.aiweiwei.com
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