Ai Weiwei

chinesisch, geb. 1957

Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds), 2009

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Medium: 1000 sun flower seeds in porcelain, sculpted and painted by hand, manufactured in Jingdezhen, China, in glass jar, inscribed with title and artist name
Größe: 6,38 x 4,38 x 4,38 in (16,2 x 11,1 x 11,1 cm)
Kennzeichnungen: Signed and numbered certificate

50.000 USD

Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art

New York

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Edition: 30
Ausstellungen: 09/07/2012 - 11/03/2012 Ai Weiwei: Fairytale Chairs and New York Photographs

Beschreibung

Published by Carolina Nitsch for the New Museum, New York

Kui Hua Zi - which translates as "sunflower seeds" - is a continuation of Ai's practice of fusing Western and Eastern sensibilities, history, and contemporary political metaphor. The sunflower seeds are a symbol for a sustainable way of life, and are made in porcelain, a material invented in China 1,200 years ago. The image and metaphor of the sunflower seed were omnipresent in Mao's cultural revolution and often represented the Chairman himself. Packed in a modern household glass, they are a down-to-earth symbol to be used by everyone and emphasize Ai's combination of the common with the extraordinary. The gesture of enclosing the seeds within a re-sealable jar is part of his larger vision of interactivity in his works and metaphors of Chinese society. The porcelain sunflower seeds represent the one and the many; and the modern with the ancient.