Chief artist of China outlawed

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The Chinese Communists announced Aya Weiwei outlawed, Tiananmen Square (the shooting of students in June 1989), the persecution of the Dalai Lama, now a famous artist .. (EA)
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"What makes a biography ..."
April 7, the PRC authorities gave the first explanation of the fate of the main contemporary Chinese artist Aya Weiwei, who disappeared several days ago. They confirmed all the worst suspicions - for the master, famous throughout the world under investigation.

Ai Weiwei maverick reputation was long ago. Actually, in China do not have to do too much, that you have taken note of - just "hang out". The artist was destined for this from birth: his father was Ai Qing, a prominent poet, sent into exile in the late fifties and not printed until the rehabilitation in 1978. In addition, Ai Weiwei more than ten years he lived and studied in the U.S. and China came only in 1993 when his father became ill. At home, he developed the activities, becoming the initiator of many projects and exhibitions.

Ai Weiwei has created a name for itself abroad, quickly became the most acclaimed contemporary artist from China: Aya works were exhibited in Japan, Korea, USA, Australia, Brazil and almost all Western European countries (including at the prestigious Venice Biennale). Asian sector of the art market in recent years, developing so successfully that in the foreseeable future, certainly surpass American and European, and in fact Ai Weiwei is one of those to whom it is possible to put the credit - along with ancient and contemporary Chinese artists-rich buyers from Hong Kong .

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However, Chinese authorities have taken the time to encourage Aya, and no wonder: his art were frequent ideological differences with the dogma. For example, it suffices to mention one of the latest and most high-profile exhibitions of the artist: one of the halls of the gallery, "Tate - Modern" were scattered about a hundred million sunflower seeds - which were actually hand made of porcelain and painted by artisans of Jingdezhen in 1600. Visitors to the Museum of London which went over the mountains "seeds," Hay invited to reflect on the culture of consumption and the millions of Chinese who are forced to serve her.

Another example - the famous National Stadium in Beijing, also known as "Bird Nest" under construction for the 2008 Olympics. Ai Weiwei participated in the development of its appearance, together with the Swiss architects. The structure of the feedback gathered brilliant professionals and chained themselves to millions of admiring glances. Hay had every opportunity to rest on its laurels. But instead, he spoke out against holding the Games in a country where human rights are violated. Then became the star of the artist and did renounce his work, saying that he did it only out of love for design.

Ai criticized the Chinese authorities not only in the language of art, but plain text - through the media and the Internet. Until recent events, he has several times entered into open conflict with the state, for the first time - in 2008, after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan. Then, Ai Weiwei has participated in a national investigation into the incident, which helped investigate corruption in the construction of flimsy schools under the debris that killed thousands of students. He began to draw up a list of names of victims, to establish their present number. In 2009, during the investigation of the artist was beaten by police and later the German physician recorded a brain hemorrhage, need an operation.

In autumn 2010, it became known that the authorities decided to demolish the newly-built Shanghai studio Aya Weiwei, according to official explanations, the construction had been admitted some violations with the land. Paradoxically, the construction of the artist's studio booked the same power - even before he began to speak out strongly on political issues. During the period when the Communist Party changed its views, Aye, in particular, managed to make a film about public figures Chzhengu Feng, who lived more than three months in the Tokyo airport, as the Chinese authorities would not let him back home. That the artist was unable to take part in actions in defense of his own studio, he was put under house arrest. In December Ayu forbidden to leave China, and in January 2011 a workshop was demolished.

On April 3, Aya was taken off the flight. On the same day police searched his studio and took all the computers. Since then, the fate of the artist within four days remained unknown, because the authorities did not say he was arrested or not. In fact, do not clarify this issue and now - with the difference that gosinformagentstvo Xinhua released a short note that Ai Weiwei is under legal investigation and is suspected of certain economic crimes (which is very similar claims against the illegal construction of the studio).

During these four days, had expressed support for Ayu artists and museum workers in many Western countries, as well as EU authorities, the United States, Britain, France and Germany. In response to one of government newspaper advised foreigners not to go into the internal affairs of the country.

In that case the artist - the political, no one doubts. Most observers attributed the detention Aya Weiwei with his statements about the revolutions and protests throughout the Arab world: from the moment that exploded in Tunisia, in China sharply increased oversight of dissidents. Others note that the artist had a reputation untouchable because of the father figure and an international reputation, and time and it still came, the decision was taken at the top.

The scandal has acquired an international dimension, and Beijing to hush it will not succeed. What troubled community now expect, it is unclear - whether speedy trial and sentencing, or a sudden release, or many months or even years of obscurity (and possibly trade with foreign partners). Detention Aya Weiwei is very similar to the situation with a prisoner advocate Liu Xiaobo, who in 2010 received the Nobel Prize (this decision Hay maintained that he, too, of course, score?). Perhaps China has decided such categorical measures increase the number of winners. "What's biography makes our red-headed" - this is also about the future Nobelevku said.

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From site ARTinvestment.RU

Last Sunday, a famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (Ai Weiwei), was detained at Beijing airport by police and taken to an unknown destination. Since then, no news from him have been reported. Aye, only one in a series of intellectuals who were arrested in China in recent weeks: the authorities are afraid of repeating the Middle East scenario. As reported by The New York Times, the New York project Aya, despite the disappearance of the author, decided not to do it.

May 2 in midtown Manhattan, opposite Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue) will be presented to the public twelve sculptures in the form of Aya heads of zodiac animals. This is a replica of figures who were abducted in the XIX century of the Imperial Palace Yuanminyuan. The ensemble is shown in the Biennale in Sao Paulo, May 12, it also can be seen in London (Somerset House). New York instances will stay at the Plaza Hotel until July 15. Opening to visit the mayor Michael Bloomberg (Michael Bloomberg).

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The project involved the organization AW Asia, whose founder Larry Warsh (Larry Warsh) reported that the sculpture is already in New York. According to Worsham, to agitate for the liberation of the artist's premature, because no one knows exactly what happened to him. However, he has already made a formal requirement to give freedom to Ayu, which is "one of the greatest living artists and thinkers, as well as internationally respected advocate of human rights."

Their protest against the arrest of Aya already expressed by the representatives of the Governments of Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, as well as many cultural figures, including director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota (Nicholas Serota), the artist Olafur Eliasson (Olafur Eliasson) and the architect Lebbeus Woods (Lebbeus Woods ).
The material was prepared Yulia Maksimova
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