{"id":44136,"date":"2022-02-11T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=44136"},"modified":"2023-12-28T02:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:57:40","slug":"chinas-dissident-artist-who-built-the-beijing-olympic-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/02\/chinas-dissident-artist-who-built-the-beijing-olympic-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Dissident Artist Who Built The Beijing Olympic Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44162\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44162\" class=\"wp-image-44162\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing National Stadium at dusk with its light on\" width=\"276\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium.jpg 1762w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beijing_national_stadium-1536x888.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter23, CC BY-SA 3.0 &lt;https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1e\/Beijing_national_stadium.jpg&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I first saw the work of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei years ago at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) when I saw parts of his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publicdelivery.org\/ai-weiwei-study-of-perspective\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study of Perspective<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series. A few black-and-white photographs of different world landmarks hung on the wall, all with a middle finger emerging behind the camera. The Eiffel Tower, Tiananmen Square, and the Mona Lisa were all being flipped off by whoever was behind the camera. Though Ai stopped contributing to the series in 2003, he couldn\u2019t help but revive the motif in 2017 to give the finger to New York\u2019s Trump Tower. Giving the middle finger has been so associated with Ai Weiwei that a few years ago he created one thousand small sculptures of the gesture, with several of them selling at auction in recent years for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2020\/contemporary-prints-multiples-online\/ai-weiwei-artists-hand\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as high as $7,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (or $8,750 w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since seeing the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study of Perspective<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I\u2019ve followed Ai\u2019s work, from his sculpture <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/arts\/05-02-17-ai-weiwei-sculptures-waller-creek-contemporary-austin\/#slide=0\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forever Bicycles<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made from bike frames, to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-ai-weiwei-installs-fences-new-york-making-locals-face-refugee-crisis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">installing cages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around New York to bring attention to the plight of refugees worldwide. Ai Weiwei, whose own father was sent to a prison farm in 1957 after defending persecuted artists, has nearly always been ahead of the curb when it comes to calling attention to humanity\u2019s shortcomings, especially those which go on in his home country. After being arrested and detained for 81 days without charge in 2011, he began his process of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/good-feeling-ai-weiwei-picks-portugal-show-home-78065115\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">self-imposed exile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He now lives in Portugal after being allowed to leave China in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Ai has come up again in the news recently because of his commentary on Beijing\u2019s Olympic stadium originally built for the 2008 summer games but is now being used for the current winter games. The stadium, known popularly as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/media.nationalgeographic.org\/assets\/photos\/000\/272\/27284.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bird\u2019s Nest<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because of the design, was built by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog &amp; de Meuron, while Ai was brought on as the principal artistic consultant. Even during the 2008 Olympics, Ai Weiwei denounced his creation as \u201ca big disappointment\u201d being used as propaganda by the central government in Beijing. In his book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ai writes that the stadium\u2019s design was directly inspired by traditional Chinese ceramic art, and was meant to symbolize freedom and transparency. While Ai seemed hopeful for a better future for his country, fourteen years later, as Beijing hosts another set of Olympic games, he seems more doubtful than ever. He\u2019s been more critical of Beijing than ever, calling attention to the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59595952\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plight of the Uyghur people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in western China, as well as the whereabouts of Chinese Olympian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/plain-speaking-wta-shows-up-ioc-s-quiet-diplomacy-in-peng-case-1.4733551\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peng Shuai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who has not been seen since accusing a senior party official of sexual assault. He accused the International Olympic Committee of \u201cstanding next to the authoritarians\u201d in failing to comment on China\u2019s human rights record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one can know if Ai Weiwei\u2019s pessimism about China\u2019s future is wholly warranted. But no one can deny that this artist will always make sure we all pay attention to what\u2019s actually going on in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw the work of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei years ago at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) when I saw parts of his Study of Perspective series. 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