Ai Weiwei is a chinese artist, architect, scupltor and photographer. He works a lot with new technologies : for example, he takes pictures with his Iphone and send it on his blog.
Through his works, he denounces the chinese government and the contradictions between technical evolutions of his country and the archaism of the social system.
In a series of photos that I see this year at Jeu De Paume in Paris, he photographs his middle finger raised in front of famous monuments. He calls those photos "Study of Perspective", playing with the idea of a serious experimentation which is counterbalanced by the provocative content of the photos (monuments which are symbols of a nation and representing official art and patrimony). Recently, he was put in jail (april 2011) for his works. He's also regularly and violently arrested by the chinese police.
I read an article in Le Nouvel Observateur today, which explain that Ai Weiwei had to pay a big fine for fiscal evasion. But the artist contest this decision : Ai Weiwei considers it as a measure of repression against his activism. The authorities also confiscates his passport, compromising Ai Wei Wei's travels to Washington, NY and Berlin to present his works. (204)
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