Two Videos Near Ai Wei Wei As Well As Upcoming Ra Exhibition

On 19th September, a major exhibition of operate past times the leading Chinese contemporary creative somebody Ai Wei Wei opens at the Royal Academy of Art.

• The exhibition is the starting fourth dimension major institutional survey of his artistic output
• It's been curated inwards collboration amongst Ai Wei Wei from his studio inwards Beijing.
• It includes 
• significant industrial plant from 1993 - when Ai Weiwei returned to PRC - afterwards to a greater extent than than a decade spent living inwards New York
• new site-specific installations together with interventions across diverse spaces inside the RA together with its courtyard.

Ahead of the opening of the exhibition, The Royal Academy of Art convey published 2 videos on YouTube of an interview amongst Ai Wei Wei (website) done by Tim Marlow, the novel Director of Artistic Programmes at the RA (and formerly of the White Cube).

Ai Weiwei, Video Recorder, 2010

Marble, 43 x nineteen x nineteen cm

Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio | Image courtesy Ai Weiwei | (c) Ai Weiwei

Ai has made a issue of films using handheld video cameras over the past times 20 years many of which document pregnant events such equally the changing aspect upwards of Beijing, the touching on on the families of the victims of the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 together with the demolition of his Shanghai studio inwards 2011. The manus carved marble video recorder eternalises the equipment Ai uses to tape these events together with to query the rights of the individual. 

These are those videos. The starting fourth dimension ane lasts but over v minutes together with the 2nd ane is vii minutes.

In this video, recorded at his abode inwards Beijing, Ai Weiwei talks almost his artistic influences together with the job of politics inwards his work. This conversation took house ahead of his major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts inwards spill 2015.

Ai Weiwei's monumental operate 'Straight' volition live the heaviest sculpture e'er shown at the Royal Academy when it is installed for the artist's major exhibition inwards September 2015. The operate is made from straightened steel reinforcing bars, salvaged from the ruins of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Ai Wei Wei Exhibition details: 

• Dates: nineteen September — xiii December) 
• Days together with times: Sabbatum – Th 10am – 6pm, Fri 10am – 10pm
• Venue: Main Galleries, Burlington House
• Price: £17.60 (without donation £16). Concessions available. Friends of the RA together with nether 16s instruct free. 
• Tickets include a multimedia guide together with Friends of the RA volition have ane for free.

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