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Maria Sapeta
Standing on the bridge over the hall look down. Under the floating cloud of dust you see a crowd of people resting on usypanym gravel. Only after leaving the first floor, stand against what you thought was a beach and you see millions of sunflower seeds strewn on the floor.
visiting the Tate Modern in London is worth a visit to the famous Turbine Hall, where up to 2 May 2011 is presented in the work of contemporary artist, made especially for our museum.
Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous and most respected contemporary Chinese artists in the world, is the author m.in Olympic stadium in Beijing so. bird's nest. As an activist, an activist and human rights defender was involved in the disclosure of abuses in the construction of schools that collapsed during the earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008. Is haunted for criticizing the Chinese government. So far, destroyed his studio in Shanghai, beaten, detained under house arrest, and arrested on April 3 at the airport in Beijing.
Returning to the exhibition "Sunflower seeds," as he said the Tate Modern Museum Director Vincent Todoli, this is one of the most socially engaged works that have arisen today. Hot on the sunflower seeds and looking at a rest people, captivated me, the simplicity of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe artist. Installation itself very effectively engages visitors in a game started by Weiwei. Viewers can install this, relax, relax, have a nice time with friends after a hard, requiring intellectual effort trip to Tate Modern's floor. But when the rest among the 150 tons of beans come to mind obvious connotations.
The first of these relates to the traditions of Chinese porcelain. For centuries, China was famous for porcelain, which valued the whole world. However, Ai Weiwei says something more. Raises question about the treatment of people, mass consumption, the Chinese industry and the collective work at all. In their earlier works often raises the subject, as a child because he was forced to work hard. At the exhibition in the Turbine Hall is trying to stop the visitors and get to thinking what it really is anonymous sentence written on most products, "Made in China" and how hard and tedious work-up should associate. Weiwei at the opening press conference, said that for him, this installation is a "carpet" to symbolize the Chinese people persecuted and murdered during the reign of Mao Dezonga.
The exhibition was to watch a video recording the entire course of the creation of the installation. Projection informed about the production and history. Ai Weiwei shows us sunflower seeds, which really are only ulepionymi and painted beads. They are both a consequence of an imitation of a low-paid, hard work of Chinese slaves. He is trying through this installation, give us a fundamental truth: that what we see is not always what it seems.
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a petition on the release of Ai Weiwei signed up to the directors of the most famous museums in the world, and over ten thousand Internet users in different countries.
First photography: from the Tate Modern, the other: from the archives of the author's text
Ai Weiwei, "The Unilever Series, Tate Modern
October 12, 2010 - May 2, 2011
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