The art dealer talks about his current exhibition, Bonheur de Vivre, which he considers ‘a precis of 20th-century beauty’, a return to art that focuses on passion, joy, happi...
... a tumble of fruit boxes and shoppers, an extraordinary Chatsworth passageway with a marble floor, a cousin in his kitchen, a London window with an Ai Weiwei pot standing i...
... Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Mies van der Rohe.
Contemporary artists: Ai Weiwei, Anselm Kiefer, Odd Nerdrum, Marlene Dumas, and Charles LeDray.
Contemporary arch...
From the work of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat, to the political statements of Ai Weiwei, to Lucy Wood’s improbably dangerous glass t...
... a monolith, and a flashy assemblage anchored by a dead tree that Ai Weiwei had rendered in bronze provided irresistible photo-ops.
Virtually gone were fragile materials ...
... methods form aspects of your art and your campaign?
BRS: Yes. As you know, art around the world is under threat. The Qataris are locking up their poets, the Chinese are ...
... and Ai Weiwei (China).
City of London, London September 2015 – May 2016
Interview by MK PALOMAR Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::::/fulltext::...
... networks.
In terms of impact, last week I came out of the Ai Weiwei exhibition [at the Royal Academy] absolutely reeling. I found the power and bravery of the work, the ...
... is incredibly important. Ruthenbeck has taken these tables and chairs out of their natural environment and, in a manner akin to the likes of Joseph Kosuth, Marcel Duchamp ...
... remake it, from Ai Weiwei to Louise Bourgeois. In the finest examples, the reconstituted space is the art; for example in the sublime work of Janet Cardiff and George Bure...
... the force of British output in this most cost-intensive medium. In London, while Ai Weiwei himself had been arrested and imprisoned in China, his work (page 72) demonstrat...
... patient’s health. The decision to launch with Ai Weiwei’s travelling show, though not obvious to locals (as the Miami artist who recently smashed Ai’s pot demonstrat...
... not only ink on paper but more current media such as photography, video, animation and sculpture. Many have an international profile, among whom are Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huan,...
... the crazy bicycles by Ai Weiwei and Héctor Zamora and the Crayola colours rainbowing through the ice-white tent of ‘Untitled’, and they related to the video art as to...
... somewhat arbitrary. Works that respond to the contemporary political situation, such as Ai Weiwei’s Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), loose their pertinence when consid...
... artworks by Ai Weiwei?
TB: Ai Weiwei is an interesting case study. He is supported by big art institutions, has about 10 million followers on Twitter, is adored by the ...
... Stars group in China in the 1970s, along with artists such as Ai Weiwei, Huang Rui and Ma Desheng. Wang first displayed his work at the now famous guerrilla-style Chinese ...
... today by amusingly but usefully swapping their pavilions. Can Germany be serious in showing a lesser work by Ai Weiwei, an array of suspended wooden stools simulating a ha...
... the 28th Biennale in 2008 (page 232). Close to the entrance, it offered Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals, large bronze animal heads, each conventionally representing a symb...
... of Kazakhstan; Roads of Arabia: Archeology and History of the Kindgdom of South Arabia; Feast Yours Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran; Perspectives by Ai Weiwei; Sh...
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