groundbreaking events 100 years ago. and you can t get green. bicycles with friends. today is the 30th anniversary of the crackdown in beijing one of the most prominent critics of the chinese government since that time is the chinese artist ai wei wei who s lived here in germany since 2015 he creates works on a monumental scale and right now a museum is staging a monumental exhibition of his works. it s the biggest retrospective of ever seen in europe the new exhibition and dusseldorf shows his most important works of recent years. including $60000000.00 sunflower seeds out of porcelain each one handmade an individual but they all seem to
dissolve into one mass an emblem for chinese society everything is art everything is politics is an exhibition that delivers on its name. in the last years i way way has gone from a dissident chinese artist to an international celebrity the cameras crowd in to get his picture but he counters with his own lens his own view when i moved to germany ma
Looking back that period of time before and after tiananmen the eighty s the ninety s was a relatively good and free time for chinese artists and really since china hosted the olympics and since she didn t ping to power things have been getting a lot harder now at the same time art is big money even in china and there s some chinese art that s worth a lot of money. that is also actually. critical if you look between the lines like this work the last supper by saying funds you which sold for $23000000.00 if you look judas is actually wearing a western necktie then there s the movement called cynical real ism also very popular with collectors spearheaded by you amy journal and fung the journey is creepy smiles read by many as critical of chinese society of course these artists are painting tandem and square and if they arrest everything is all everything is politics is it. reads be there or here.