How Ai Weiwei’s years living in an underground hole haunt his art to this day - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous artists in the world, but infamous to the Chinese authorities. To them he is an outspoken, critical troublemaker.
Eight years ago, after a period of imprisonment and then house arrest in Shanghai, he left China and now lives in Portugal, but his work is always about China and often using ordinary objects and found materials to comment on his country's past and present.
When he was two, the family was banished at the start of the Cultural Revolution, to the Gobi desert in order to punish his father, then China's most famous poet, Ai Quing. For the first five years of that banishment they lived in an underground hole, with no light heat or water.
The entrance to the "hellhole" is the artist's screensaver and also features in his new exhibition at the Design Museum in London, in a giant lego brick depiction of his late father's favourite painting of Monet's Water Lilies.
Kirsty Wark met Ai Weiwei before his exhibition opened.
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Ai Weiwei is one of my heroes...such a brave spirit.
He is cancelled by the mainstream US, European, Australian media outlets, what is going on? lol.......
Ai Weiwei lives now in Portugal ( he is very welcome ♥) where he is free to create his impactful, brilliant art. I love the way he sees the world. Wonderful man !
Ai Weiwei's mom is like all mom's 😁❤️
A great humanitarian! An amazing and humble person
I am a huge fan of Ai Weiwei. Maximum freedom of expression, the spirit of God in His creation coming thru the Artist. Art the last freedom known to man, the Nazis could not stop Pablo Picasso. Keep it up mi Star !! ❤❤
Idk a traditional Chinese dragon or lion made out of buttons called Buttons sounds adorable
I saw his expo in lisbon and it was genuinely amazing. its contemporary art that uses traditional and figurative methods so brilliantly. its not just some random line on a canvas, there are exquisite paintings and sculptures the represent real world objects or people in a way that truly speaks to you about modern issues.
Listen to Between the Buttons the Rolling Stones and you will get inspired as to what to do with those 30,000 buttons. C'mon try it !!! ❤
Quite fascinating. Where the hell do you store 40t of buttons though
China is so harsh on their people 😞
AI Weiwei!! Much respect from the States
I know many people would agree with me that Wei wei's undergound life in a hole has made his art a... whole... lot... better!
Great guy. Respext from Russia
He had to leave China to fully express himself as an artist.
Cancelled by the West 😅
This man is a Hero, a stupendous human being, SO intelligent and emotionally intelligent. GIVE HIM THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR SOMETHING
plant hte buttons to grow shirts....!
This man is the artist of our time. Celebrate his work everyday.
anyone who is paid by bbc can paint
❤️Ai Wei Wei!!!
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤...so humble always
one of humanity's greatest living artists thank you BBC
hi BBC...
america so apreciate for aiww art for china...
but silence for palestine😂😂😂
america just awear with they bussiness😂
Ai Weiwei is a famous artist! Great work!
It might be debated that he is the planet's greatest living artist.
Utterly delightful and brilliant man.
Kirsty is such a great journalist and shows great respect and interest in her interview.
Amazing man. I wish he could return to his home. it would help china tremendously.
Make clothes for the poor
i learned about him in school! beautiful art
Ai is my favorite contemporary artist
A complete artist!
he's such an icon
I learned to understand Ai Weiwei from his art.......Love it ! ❤❤❤
Maybe Macron and EU leaders should watch this video before saying they want to trade again with China.
I love how he will not use Presidents Pooh's name. I won't either.
Humility at its finest
Weiwei is no artist, he only is an AI
被豢养的...
👍🍀
草間彌生也認識他們？？
Of course the bbc loses no opportunity to have a go at China. A puny, pathetic insular island against the growing superpower 😂
oh shut up you tit get off the bbc news channel
also fuk china its acting like a 1800s country causing trouble all over asia
Imagine being “anti-revolutionary” in a country where millions were starving to death because of Feudal landlords and warlords. I wonder what his fathers class was prior to the revolution…?
read his autobigraphy
Actually, since 1949 in China there has been "People's Republic of China" ruling with the Communist Party - no "feudal landlords and warlords". May I suggest some reading before writing such a criticism.... 😞
The revolution overthrowing the Qing dynasty occurred in 1908 and was masterminded by Sun Yat-Sen. In 1937 the Japanese invaded Manchuria and two competing "warlords" (or parties, the Communists and the Nationalists), Mao Tse-Tong and Chiang Kai-Shek combined during WWII to combat the Japanese threat. Toward the end of the war, Chiang and Mao's differing view on how the Republic should continue led to a civil war (in 1946 the US tried to mediate, under the auspices of George Marshall, but sadly it never went anywhere). Mao, with superior manpower drove Chiang to invade Taiwan. Their competing dictatorships lasted until their deaths, and beyond.
The Republic of China, in Taiwan only took steps to democracy in the last 30 or so years. Before WWII it had been under Japanese occupation since the late 19th Century.
The Cultural Revolution (which you might have been referring to) was just an excuse for Mao to rid himself of anyone who thought for themselves; essentially the peasants killed or tortured or "re-educated" everyone who they thought was overly educated or snobby (even when they believed in socialistic ideas themselves) .
@@robertharris1748 Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. My answer was directed to LC who speaks of feudalism and the class she / he / divers thinks AiWeiwei's father belonged to, implyingthe father was feudal and the revolution abolishing monarchy so the family life in the hole appears to LC justified by exploiting / parasitizing social classes before this punishment. (Which was certainly also possible under Mao because there was no real socialism /communism, but I would not use the terms feudalism / class as this conjures up the overthrowing of monarchy) Even the autobiography may not convey the real reasons, as AiWei Wei was a kid and parents tend to protect their kids from problems so they don't know what is behind the life they see - the father may well have been exploitant to others. That's the reason almost everybody has nice memories of their childhood and idealizin parents. Some people develop a longing to bring back the political circumstances they grew up in, I venture to say, because "Everything was fine in the old days"
Thanks a lot for your attention 🙂
@@2Nickel2Welli you think communists are so powerful they can wave a wand and change society. Very funny. Ai Wei Wei is bought and paid for by the CIA lol go argue with someone more gullible then me bud.
He doesn't make the art.
Other people make the products.
So in reality he should be described as a designer.
True. Same when architects built this or that
Same with fashion designers
He doesn't have to be so gummies to the way of art.
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go away
Fruitcake.
Yes a shitty British invention, for sure
He's not the only one living under ground ay BS'BBC 👁️☠️
Lame effort
clearly an odd bloke
the question is how many people actually want to get to know who is this chin man