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Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing
Ai Weiwei’s largest studio in Beijing, located in an old German-designed car parts factory in the Zuoyou Arts District on the city’s periphery, was demolished at 2pm on Friday as part of a redevelopment of the area. Ga Rang, Ai’s assistant who managed the facility, told AFP that the studio’s lease expired last year, but it "simply wasn't possible" to move out quickly given the amount of art and materials Ai kept there. Most other art spaces in the area had already been demolished. Ga said they were notified recently that they must be move within a few days, but not informed when the demolition would start. "They came and started knocking down the windows today without telling us beforehand. There's still so much stuff inside," he said. AFP described a “ghostly retrospective” as works were evacuated ahead of the jackhammers and laid outside.
The Zuoyou studio is the latest artistic casualty in Beijing’s ruthless gentrification and redevelopment campaign. Last year the entire Heiqiao, or Black Bridge, village popular for its low rent artist studios was demolished, and two galleries in Caochangdi, located on land owned by the railway, were evicted last month ahead of impending demolit
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Traveling Landscape
After months of traveling, the installation ‚Traveling Landscape’ by the Chinese artist, architect and urbanist Ai Weiwei is opened since November 22, 2007 at AedesLand.
The exhibition is put on display at AedesLand after Ai Weiwei’s art-campaign at the documenta XII, where he invited 1001 Chinese to Kassel. The installation plays ironically with the journey of the unique trolleys, and conceptually broaches the issues of economy, society and culture under a critical point of view. In order to exceed limits, Ai Weiwei´s urban operations as an architect and his art-activities as a conceptual artist intend to broaden one´s perspective.
We cordially invite you to the lecture "Ai Weiwei´s Traveling Landscape in the Context of Architecture and Art" on Decembre 18, 2007 at 18:30 p.m. at AedesLand with:
Eduard Kögel, urban planner, curator and author of various publications on Chinese architecture
Birgit Hopfener, curator, author and art historian with focus on installation art from China.
In dialogue, they will sound the frontier crossings of Ai Weiwei through an architectual and art historical view - including a shift of our views.
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