Professor: Gloria Wallis
Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY
a) Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei
(Born 1957) is a Chinese artist, active also in architecture, curating exhibitions, photography, cinema and cultural and social criticism. He collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as an artistic consultant for the construction of the Beijing National Stadium (known as the Bird's Nest, "bird's nest") for the 2008 Olympics. Investigated in the corruption and abuse of government power in China, and is among the signatories of Charter 08 (see).
It is particularly active in trying to expose an alleged bribery scandal involving the construction of schools that collapsed during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. Intensively uses the Internet to communicate with people throughout China, especially with the younger generation.
* 1. Ai Weiwei, Sunflower seeds, sunflower 100,000,000 each worked in ceramics and hand painted. Dimensions variable.
In October 2010, Sunflower has been installed at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London. The work is composed of a hundred million or so ceramic sunflower seeds scattered on the floor of the exhibition space, each individually hand painted in the city of Jingdezhen, in 1600 by Chinese craftsmen.
The artist wants the work that visitors can walk, roll over, play with sunflower seeds, in order to live more closely the essence of this his commentary on mass consumption, the Chinese industry, hunger, and collective work.
However, since 16 October, the Tate Modern has stopped people from walking on the work, because of possible health hazards that may be caused by the ceramic powder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8
* 2. Ai Weiwei, Fairytale, intervention at Documenta 12, Kassel 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3_EKX1Igo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvFoKIecxY&feature = related
For Fairytale, Ai Weiwei has brought 1000 people from all over China in Kassel, the small town in Germany that hosts the famous festival. Participants were chosen through a public announcement that the artist has posted on his blog.
Ai Weiwei has also signed the storage and temporary accommodation arranged for the participants in an old textile factory. Wei invited them to wander the city during the time of exposure, three months. Participants were divided into five groups, each of whom stayed in Kassel for a week. According to Philip Tinari, the primary design object here is not the clothing or bags, but the experiences of the participants, their mood and mood. During the exhibition has been displayed monumental outdoor sculpture entitled Weiwei Template, made of wooden doors and windows of houses of Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), which collapsed after a storm.
* 3. Ai Weiwei, So Sorry, installation, 2009/10
From October 2009 to January 2010, Ai Weiwei has exhibited at the Haus der Kunst So Sorry to Monaco, Germany.
in the major retrospective of the artist today. The title refers to the thousands of apology expressed by governments, industries and financial companies around the world in an effort to compensate for misdeeds and tragedies, but do not often bear the consequences or take responsibility for the evil done, much less repair .
For this exhibition, Ai Weiwei has created an installation on the facade of the Haus der Kunst, made of 9,000 backpacks to children, which bears the words 'He lived happily for seven years in this world' in Chinese characters (provided the sentence of a mother of a child who died in the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008) .
Ai Weiwei has said: 'The idea of \u200b\u200busing backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake of May 2008. During the earthquake, many schools have collapsed and many thousands of young students who lost their lives, and bags and study material were seen scattered all over the world. Then the students' lives have been swallowed into the missing state propaganda, and soon you forget everything. "
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei (translated and read in full, follow the main links, in particular those related to: Art Bejing Stadium, Charta 08, Fuck Off art exhibition).
The Tate Modern and Unilever Series:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/unileverseries/
b) Do-Ho Suh Do-Ho
Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. After studying painting at Seoul National University and had served in South Korea, he moved to the United States where he continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. He represented Korea at the Venice Biennale in 2001. He currently lives in New York.
A retrospective of his work was presented at the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2002. Important exhibitions were held on the artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002).
Particularly important for the artist's career passing at the Venice Biennale in 2001, where he was present both as an artist of the Korean pavilion in the international exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the Giardini.
On that occasion the artist has presented a set of works that helped define the characteristics of his style, very original:
* 1. Do Ho Suh, Some / One, 1998. Platelets
military stainless steel, nickel-plated copper sheets, fiberglass, stainless steel frame. Dimensions variable.
* 2. Floor, 1997-2000.
Figurine in PVC, glass plates, polyurethane resin, dimensions variable (modules of 100 x 100 x 8 cm)
* 3. Who am we? (N), 2000
wallpaper: offset printing 4-color sheets each 61 x 91.4 cm. Dimensions variable.
All these works, very original, hinges on the meaning of the relationship between the individual and social organization that includes making him a microscopic piece, taking away individuality and uniqueness and make it to levels indistinguishable by the group.
In the important interview published in Art: 21
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/clip2.html
Do Ho Suh explains the genesis of Some / One: in his early days in Rhode Island, yet the new place and with little knowledge of English, he happens to get acquainted with one of the few Koreans residing in the city, who ran a military surplus store. And 'this particular person to procure the plates and the military machine to print the names on them, from this, accompanied by memories of the recent experience of military service, the idea of \u200b\u200bSome / One, glittering and lavish imperial dress, however, built from sacrifice of countless of anonymous, represented by military plates that make up and flooded the ground suggesting a continuum without end.
Another feature concerns the artist's meditation on the theme of the house while he was in the bed of her room as a student in the United States, stunned by the unusual sounds of the street and the voices are not familiar, the artist found himself think of his home in Korea, and has built these evanescent, suspended from the ceiling, soft yet full of all the details.
Still on art: 21, another interview makes this second aspect of the artist's meditations:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/clip1.html
* 4. Seoul Home / LA Home / New York Home / Baltimore Home / London Home / Home Seattle, 1999
Silk, 3.78 x 6.96 x 6.96 m
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
In 2010, the ' artist has participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the installation Blueprint:
* 5. Suh Do-Ho Suh + Architects, Blueprint, installation, 2010
http://www.justanotherflog.com/2010/10/blueprint-venice-architecture-biennale-2010/
Bibliography
addition to sites already mentioned in the text, see
www.lehmannmaupin.com
http://www.duetart.com/dentro/artists/artists%% 20ita/Suh 20ita.html
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11217/venice-architecture-biennale-2010-preview-suh-architects-do-ho-suh.html
AA.VV., Meet People in Architecture, Architecture Biennale 2010, exhibitions, catalogs Journal, Marsilio Editore, vol. 1, p. 136
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