Groundbreaking events 100 years ago. And you cant 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 whos 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. Its 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 many exp
from afghanistan and iraq over the mediterranean to europe some see his efforts as heroic others accuse him of overstepping the bounds between art and activism. and also in the west this always saying art for our sake which i think it s a lie artists never are sick of artists always concerned about the human dignity and freedom of expression expression and the rights so those very. solid foundations arko artist become a superficial and a very decorative. in 2008 an earthquake in china s sichuan province left more than 70000 people dead including more than 5000 children i went away to travel there to see what the government wasn t saying he collected victims names