Ai Weiwei/La Commedia Umana/Memento Mori
Exhibition catalog of Ai Weiwei’s first show of glass works, including one of the largest Murano glass sculptures ever, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy
Conceived in Murano, Ai Weiwei explains, ‘Glass, a special material and a part of our daily life, bears witness to joy, anxiety and worry in our reality. In its presence, we reflect upon the relationships between life and death, and between tradition and reality.’
Created in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore-Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo, the exhibition used expertly crafted glass to convey the radical, subversive themes for which Ai Wewei is best known: increasingly fragile, polarised societies, ever-fraught relationship with natural ecosystems, and the darker, lesser documented corners of history.
The exhibition ran alongside the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
Exhibition catalog of Ai Weiwei’s first show of glass works, including one of the largest Murano glass sculptures ever, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy
Conceived in Murano, Ai Weiwei explains, ‘Glass, a special material and a part of our daily life, bears witness to joy, anxiety and worry in our reality. In its presence, we reflect upon the relationships between life and death, and between tradition and reality.’
Created in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore-Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo, the exhibition used expertly crafted glass to convey the radical, subversive themes for which Ai Wewei is best known: increasingly fragile, polarised societies, ever-fraught relationship with natural ecosystems, and the darker, lesser documented corners of history.
The exhibition ran alongside the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
Exhibition catalog of Ai Weiwei’s first show of glass works, including one of the largest Murano glass sculptures ever, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy
Conceived in Murano, Ai Weiwei explains, ‘Glass, a special material and a part of our daily life, bears witness to joy, anxiety and worry in our reality. In its presence, we reflect upon the relationships between life and death, and between tradition and reality.’
Created in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore-Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo, the exhibition used expertly crafted glass to convey the radical, subversive themes for which Ai Wewei is best known: increasingly fragile, polarised societies, ever-fraught relationship with natural ecosystems, and the darker, lesser documented corners of history.
The exhibition ran alongside the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
