Studio International

Published 22/01/2013

Perspectives: Ai Weiwei

This exhibition features Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s monumental installation Fragments (2005)

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Working with a team of skilled carpenters, Ai turned pillars and beams of ironwood salvaged from several dismantled Qing dynasty temples into a large-scale, seemingly chaotic work, which he calls an “irrational structure”.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, until 7 April 2013.