Nothing can resist Ai Weiwei, artist in all his gestures, from the most scathing political words to the pretty silk scarf that says
"FUCK"
in Chinese shadows.
Ai Weiwei, 63, is a resounding art activist, a renowned professional who, like Warhol, has used the platform of success to express himself and, conversely, freedom of speech as a magic formula for success.
This son of the poet Ai Qing was born in Beijing in 1957, away from circles close to power, before being violently rejected, at only 1 year old, with his family during the purges of the Cultural Revolution.
Sixteen years of harsh and humiliating exile in the distant lands of Xinjiang, until the death of Mao and the return to Beijing in 1976, where his artistic career began in the avant-garde, the group Les Étoiles, with the means at hand.
Ingenuity, sense of space, taste for architecture and analytical power are its strengths.
Ai Weiwei has that of the magician that he transforms the negative into the positive,
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