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Skirball Cultural Center opens an exhibition of portraits made up of thousands of LEGO bricks


Skirball Cultural Center opens an exhibition of portraits made up of thousands of LEGO bricks
Installation view of Ai Weiwei: Trace at Skirball Cultural Center. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The Skirball Cultural Center announces that it will resume indoor museum operations this May with the Southern California debut of Ai Weiwei: Trace. Created by Ai Weiwei, one of China’s most provocative and socially engaged living artists, the installation features portraits made up of thousands of plastic LEGO® bricks, each assembled by hand and laid out on the floor. These portraits depict individuals from around the world whom Ai and leading human-rights groups consider to be activists, prisoners of conscience, and advocates of free speech. The body of work is shaped by Ai’s own experiences as an outspoken human-rights activist: In 2011, he was arrested, interrogated, and incarcerated by the Chinese government for eighty-one days. Upon release, he was kept und ....

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