Ai Weiwei (b. 1957)

Bronze Arm

Details

Ai Weiwei (b. 1957)
Bronze Arm
signed and numbered 'Ai WEIWEI 5/10' (to the underside)
bronze
12 5/8 x 26 x 9 7/8in. (32 x 66 x 25cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number five from an edition of ten

Provenance

Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Literature

U. Miele (ed.), Ai Weiwei: 2004-2007, Beijing 2007 (marble version illustrated, p. 103).
K. Smith, H. U. Obrist and B. Fibicher, Ai Weiwei, London 2009 (marble version illustrated, pp. 18-19).

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‘At the beginning [it] is just showing attitude towards power, structure, institutions... Basically, it's about the individual's attitude or will in confronting with the power structure’ (Ai Weiwei, quoted in Exhibitions: Ai Weiwei: According to What?, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2014, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ask/forum/post.php?forum=27, [accessed 12 September 2014]).

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