(28 Dec 2024)
ITALY AI WEIWEI
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bologna, Italy – 20 September 2024
1. Various of "Lu", bamboo and silk sculpture with 16th-century frescoes by the Carracci (family of artists) in background
2. Various of "The Last Supper" made with Lego bricks
3. Tilt up from porcelain of "Left Right Studio Material" to "The Last Supper"
4. Close of fragments of porcelain
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident:
“The title ‘Who am I?’ is a philosophical question, it’s about a human or a human society who keep asking about what identify us as a human and why we are different, so those questions would always be a valid question."
6. Various of "Porcelain Pillar with Refugee Motif"
7. Various of wallpaper "Odyssey"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident:
"In my works, looks like reaches a lot of political issues and artistic issues, but it’s really about humanity. It’s really about our society and how they would as artists defend humanity."
9. Various of set of six porcelain plates called "Blue and White Porcelain Plates"
10. Various of "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn"
11. Close of "Fragments from Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn"
12. Mid of "Fragments from Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" and "Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo"
13. Tilt down of "Therese Dreaming" made with Lego bricks
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident:
"Well, Italy do have a very, very deep culture in relating to the past. And my work has always trying to give new energy and also questioning the conditions of the past. And so, to work with Italian works, especially the works being created for this city, gave me a very strong privilege to rethink about our history and also how it’ll relate to today’s life."
15. Various of "Forever (Stainless Steel Bicycles in Gilding)"
16. Various of "Pollock in Blue" made with Lego bricks
17. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Arturo Galansino, art historian and curator of exhibit:
"The artist wants to ask questions and make us ask questions. The intent is an eminently humanistic one, he wants to put man at the centre of the discourse and give him the opportunity, the duty, rather than the right, to ask questions, to question the system in which he lives. This is the thread that unites all the work of this often very provocative and controversial artist. We often do not understand exactly what he is asking and what he is asking himself, but for him, this continuous questioning and questioning of one’s role in the world is important."
18. Various of "Study of Perspective"
19. Pan right from "Ai Weiwei Quadruplex" to "Mona Lisa Smeared in Cream" made with Lego bricks
20. Close of "Mona Lisa Smeared in Cream"
21. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Arturo Galansino, art historian and curator of exhibit:
"It is certainly a challenge to the present, with some topics that are geo-politically and socio-politically relevant to our everyday lives. The works talk about migration, for example, in a very in-depth way in this exhibition, talk about a challenge to the past and we see objects that emerge from a millenary past: neolithic axes, Chinese porcelain that looks and are even more beautiful than the imperial porcelain of many centuries ago, etc. So, it is a dialogue with the past, a dialogue with the present and there is all this technical and technological diversity."
22. Various of "Estasi di Santa Cecilia (After Raffaello)" made with Lego bricks
23. Close of "Sleeping Venues with Coat hanger" made with Lego bricks
25. Various exterior shots with exhibit banner
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