Sentences with phrase «dynasty urn»
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995).
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Ai Weiwei's years of small gestures, his dropped Han Dynasty urn or his coathanger portrait of Marcel Duchamp, are long behind him.
Likewise, it's nearly impossible to conceive of Ai Weiwei's «Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn» (1995) as an act of liberation without templates like the 1989 Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and Warhol's exhibit at MoMA in 1988 (where Ai posed before a Warhol self - portrait, mimicking the gesture).
Rail: Do you feel in retrospect that the three years you came back to Beijing to tend to your father's illness was a gestation period which allowed you to think through what you did, and what you were about to do, including Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, and the Study of Perspective series in which you gave the finger to various symbols of power.
Behind this collection of vases hang three large photographs in which Weiwei is shown breaking a vase, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn.
Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn.
«Ai Weiwei Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn» and «Colored Vases».
In the very same room as the ill - fated vase was Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn — a work by Ai Weiwei himself in which he destroys the Chinese artefact.
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn recreates with «pixels» of LEGOs Ai's iconic triptych of black and white photographs depicting himself in the act of destroying a fragile symbol of China's past.
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Among them are an Egyptian lion - headed goddess from 664 - 30 BC, an ancient Chinese urn from the Liao Dynasty, and an eccentric Mayan flint from the late Classic period.
The work is a recent translation of the early 1995 images where Ai Weiwei photographed himself dropping and breaking a 2000 - year - old ceremonial Urn from the Han Dynasty (considered a golden Age in Chinese history).