Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing. After living in New York for 12 years, he went back to Beijing in 1993 and established China Art Archives & Warehouses, the earliest contemporary art space in China. Ai Weiwei is an artist, a curator, a book editor and a designer. A series of three books published by Ai Weiwei in 19941997, named Black Cover Book, White Cover Book, and Gray Cover Book became the earliest and most important literature of Chinese contemporary art. In 2000, he co-curated the Fuck Off exhibition, which brought great impact on China’s avant-garde art. In Documenta 12 in Kassel 2007, he was the subject of massive art media coverage by his enormous art work Fairytale where he invited 1001 ordinary Chinese to Germany to visit the Documenta. As an artist, Ai Weiwei achieves his unique artistic charm from his own rich experience. Most of his works show the peculiar effect of culture collision of which transcends time and space, and its induced contemplation upon culture and civilization.
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn 1995 3 b/w-prints
艾未未，1957年出生于北京。在纽约生活了十二 年后，于1993年回到北京，开办了中国最早的艺 术空间 “中国艺术文件仓库”。艾未未在创作艺 术作品的同时，策划展览，编辑书籍，兼具建筑师 的身份。 1994-1997年，艾未未编著的《黑皮书》、《白皮 书》、《灰皮书》系列，成为最早记录中国当代 艺术的重要文献。2000年，艾未未参与策划的展 览《不合作方式》（Fuck off）为当时中国的前 卫艺术界带来了不小的影响。2007年的卡塞尔文 献展，艾未未因其庞大的作品《童话》——邀请 1001名普通的中国人到德国参观卡塞尔文献展， 而成为各国艺术媒体争相报道的焦点。作为一名艺 术家，艾未未自身丰富的经历成就了他独特的艺术 魅力。他的很多作品表现了跨越时间、跨越空间的 文化碰撞所产生的奇特效果和由此引起的对于文 化、文明本身的深入思考。
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