Ai Weiwei è un artista, designer, attivista, architetto e regista cinese.
“Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.”
Ai Weiwei, interview in “ Change http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-change,” Episode 1, Season Six, Art: 21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, PBS, April 2012.
2010-, 2012
2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010
“During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.”
Ai Weiwei on Twitter in English (beta). (December 10, 2011) http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
Wines, Michael. “ China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/world/asia/28weiwei.html?pagewanted=all.” New York Times, November 28, 2009.
2000-09, 2009
“Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.”
Solway, Diane. “Enforced Disappearance.” W Magazine, November 2011.
2010-, 2011
2010-, Ai Weiwei Does Not Feel Powerful, 2011
“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”
“ Artist’s Quotes http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/artists-quotes”. Excerpted from a conversation with curators Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, May 31 and June 1, 2010. Tate Museums, UK.
2010-, 2010
“Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.”
2000-09, Truth to Power, 2009
“I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.”
Osnos, Evan. “ It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all.” New Yorker, May 24, 2010, 54–63.
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Ai Weiwei, “In China, Is Censorship the Mother of Creativity?” Interview on The Stream, Aljazeera, April 16, 2012.
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2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010
Gill, Chris. “ Ai Weiwei: ‘To use art is not enough.’ http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/“To-use-art-is-not-enough”/19818” Art Newspaper, December 3, 2009.
2000-09, 2009
2000-09, An Artist’s Ordeal. 2009
2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011
“Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011
2000-09, Happiness Can’t Be Faked, 2008
“They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.”
Moore, Malcolm. " 'Ai Weiwei: "The police can be very tough, but I can be tougher sometimes.”' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9299885/Ai-Weiwei-The-police-can-be-very-tough-but-I-can-be-tougher-sometimes.html," in: Telegraph, May 30, 2012.
2010-, 2012
“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
2010-, Ai Weiwei Does Not Feel Powerful, 2011
“ Why I’ll Stay Away from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/olympics2008.china.” Guardian, August 7, 2008.
2000-09, 2008
“The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.”
“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012.
2010-, 2012
Ai Weiwei on Twitter in English (beta). http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/ (January 10, 2011)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
“Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.”
2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011
“I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.”
“ Artist’s Quotes http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/artists-quote.” Excerpted from a conversation with curators Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, May 31 and June 1, 2010. Tate Museums, UK.
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2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009
