Fragments: Beijing 2006
Title
Fragments: Beijing 2006
Subject
Art History, Studio Arts, East Asian Studies
Description
This book covers a recent sculptural installation by the Chinese artist, architect and radical intellectual, Ai Weiwei--who is currently being watched the world over for his work on China's 2008 Olympic Stadium, designed in collaboration with the Swiss Architects, Herzog & de Meuron. Fragments depicts a mysterious large-scale sculpture that hybridizes architectural elements from several Chinese temples. "Each architectural element in a temple has a precise order. The fragments in my installation are from three or four temples, so everything is wrongly connected and misfit. They serve no purpose to each other, and the whole structure serves no purpose at all. At the beginning, many of my carpenters quit, despite the fact that I paid them a high salary and never rushed them. They quit because they didn't know what their job was for--why the table needed to be cut a certain way, or why the patina should be kept and joints hidden." http://www.artbook.com/9889901536.html (accessed 6/29/15)
Creator
Ai, Weiwei
Publisher
Galerie Urs Meile: Timezone 8
Date
2006
Rights
Scope from Artbook http://www.artbook.com/9889901536.html
Format
83 leaves: illustrated (some color); 33 cm. Issued in a folder.
Language
English, Chinese
Barcode
35108006870950
Location and Call Number
DEN Spec Coll N7349.A3 A4 2006
Library catalog URL
http://consort.library.denison.edu/record=b2801710a
Collection
Citation
Ai, Weiwei, “Fragments: Beijing 2006,” Digital Exhibits | Denison University Archives & Special Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://exhibits.denisonarchives.org/items/show/80.