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Litho-print on Somerset paper
11.69 x 8.27 in (29.7 x 21.0 cm)
From a time limited edition, believed to be of 1000.
As new condition.

Notes: Standing as a social comment on monetary value, in this piece Ai Weiwei continues to drive his narrative of questioning the ethics and morality of money throughout the world, and more specifically how we as decision makers, choose to spend it. The work explores the value of £100 and what it can buy in October 2020, the time when the work was created.

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is a world-famous contemporary artist from China. He works in a variety of media and has been a vocal critic of human rights issues in China. He spent time during his childhood forced into re-education camps because his father, Ai Quing, also an artist, had been accused of being a “Rightist” by the government of China. Ai Weiwei later attended the Film Academy in Beijing, where he studied animation. After moving to New York, he supported himself by drawing portraits of people on the street, and was influenced by cultural figures like Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg. He attended further study at the Art School League of New York and the Parsons School of Design.