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Related: About this forumArt Exhibitions Depict Fall of Chinese Regime
Published on Jun 26, 2012 by NTDTV
In the small village of Song Zhuang, on the outskirts of Beijing, many artists have recently caught the public eye by portraying the negative effects of life under the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, and depicting its future collapse.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)will remain. I would imagine there are plans being made by the government to shut it down soon..
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)has garnered international acclaim with this efforts (from wiki)
Ai Weiwei (born 18 May 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism.[1][2] Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.[3] As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[4] In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion). In October 2011 ArtReview magazine named Ai number one in their annual Power 100 list. The decision was criticised by the Chinese authorities. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin responded, "China has many artists who have sufficient ability. We feel that a selection that is based purely on a political bias and perspective has violated the objectives of the magazine".[5]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
In fact, a documentary has been made about his work and struggles: Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei:_Never_Sorry
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...the trials he's been going through with the nitwits in the CCCP. And I thought the exhibition he put together with the ceramic sunflower seeds was fantastic:
A hundred million hand-painted sunflower seeds!!!
Here's an interesting video segment from Frontline about him (about 17 minutes)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/