Details
AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)
Ruyi
porcelain
3378 x 878 x 614in. (86 x 22.7 x 16cm.)
Executed in 2006
Provenance
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.
Exhibited
Sydney, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Center, Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, 2008, p. 157 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 95).
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Go China: Ai Weiwei, 2008 (another version exhibited).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, So Sorry, 2009 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 72).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, 2013-2014 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 167).
Woodstock, Blenheim Palace, Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, 2014 (another version exhibited).
Special notice
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