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Industrial Paint on Munken Polar Paper
2015
Sheet Size: 42.5 x 72 cm
Signed
Condition: Pristine
£8,250.00
A deep blue stripe of industrial paint has been hand painted by Ai Weiwei Hon RA to create limited edition dust jackets, each entirely unique, on Munken Polar paper. The work is from the edition of variants in ten colours, published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, for the artist edition of their Ai Weiwei retrospective, 19 Sept – 13 Dec 2015.
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.
