Ai Weiwei

un artista chino brillante pero con un nombre nada grato para la cultura mexicana "Ai wei wei"..pese a ésta extraña casualidad, Wei wei ha realizado una obra bastante peculiar. A continuación dejo un copypaste de una artículo fresquesito que acaban de enviarme vía messenger. Informándome antes de su legítima publicación, qué fue de la reacción de esta obra en el documenta12 en kassel.
www.aiweiwei.com

gracias finas a mi querido amigo raulito.

otra de sus obras:
"forever". ai weiwei

PRESS RELEASE

Ai Weiwei

The last group of 1001 Chinese guests visiting Kassel and the documenta 12 in the

last weeks, contributing to Ai Weiwei's artistic work Fairytale in the process, have

now left, setting out on their journey back to Peking, Shanghai or the Chinese

provinces. The visitors are taking with them a wealth of images and experiences,

collected during the course of this experimental journey, a journey which has also

left its mark on the "hosts" here in Kassel. 

The enthusiasm with which the visitors were met exceeded all expectations: bicycles

were collected, football tournaments were organised and crash courses in Chinese

were attended. On a daily basis new invitations for joint activities with the

Chinese guests arrived. In Nordstadt, home to the 1001 guests and a district of

Kassel which has a rich history of travel and migration, the commitment was

especially spontaneous and self evident: Chinese characters were added to the

signposts, the Döner restaurant was transformed into a Karaoke bar.

Ai Weiwei expressly thanked the people of Kassel for their wonderful hospitality and

their willingness to participate in his planned "Meeting of two different cultures".

In answer to the question whether he was sad now that all the guests had left, Ai

Weiwei replied: "No, they are all still here - in memory."

Fairytale continues on its journey: in the countless images and encounters generated

by this documenta 12 work, Fairytale lives on and will continue to develop through

the books and films planned by Ai Weiwei.

In the press section of our website www.documenta.de you can download high

resolution pictures relating to Fairytale.

"Fairytale" from Ai Weiwei was financed by the Leister Foundation, Switzerland, the

Erlenmeyer Stiftung, Switzerland and the Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing - Lucerne.