Susanne Gaensheimer

über Narration und Langsamkeit

Geschichten des Augenblicks

Doris Krystof

Falk Wolf

This beautifully illustrated volume explores the inextricable link between Ai Weiwei's art and his politics. "Everything is art. Everything is politics," says internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs this comprehensive book that features sculptural installations, photographs, and videos from every aspect of the artist's forty-year career and touches on many contemporary social issues. The works featured in the book include Straight, Ai's gigantic installation made from 150 tons of rebar salvaged from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which comments on governmental corruption and negligence, and Sunflower Seeds for which the artist filled the enormous Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern with 100,000,000 porcelain seeds, each made by Chinese craftspeople. Also highlighted are his most recent works addressing the refugee crisis, such as Laundromat and Life Cycle; his provocative ventures into social media; and several early works. Wide-ranging and penetrating, this collection of Ai's most important work to date illustrates the depth of his conviction that art is most powerful when it raises awareness and incites change.

Ai Weiwei

Carsten Nicolai - Parallax Symmetry

Three decades of minimalist electronic sound and light installations by German multimedia artist Carsten Nicolai Since the early 1990s, Berlin-based artist Carsten Nicolai (born 1965)--also known as the electronic musician Alva Noto--has worked at the intersection of visual art, music and science. Parallax Symmetrygathers roughly 40 installation works.

Susanne Gaensheimer

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