AI WEIWEI -a conceptual artist
"Interlacing" is the first major exhibition of photographs and videos by the Chinese artist, it foregrounds Ai Weiwei as the communicator: the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels.
In "Interlacing", Ai Weiwei deliberately confronts social conditions in China and in the world, he is a generalist, a conceptual, socially critical artist dedicated to creating friction with, and forming reality. As an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist, and cultural critic, he is a sensitive observer of current topics and social problems:,
Detained on April 3rd 2011 by the Chinese authorities because of his political activities, released on bail June 22nd 2011, he is still, today, banned from leaving the country. the show " Interlacing" runs until April 29th in Paris.
new exhibition in Paris "Interlacing"
(1983-93) spent in New York, Lower east side