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An absent artist's exhibit with over 1,000 bicycles
Forever Bicycles is the centerpiece of Ai Weiwei’s new exhibit in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The Chinese artist, famed for previous works like Sunflower Seeds, utilizes more than 1,000 bicycles for his new work. The exhibit opened this Saturday (October 29, 2011) with the noted absence of Ai himself due to the Chinese government’s ban on his traveling. Incorporating Ai’s absence, the exhibit is aptly titled, Ai Weiwei Absent.
[…] have spanned both media and causes, ranging from documentaries to music — we’ve covered his “Forever Bicycles” exhibit and “Never Sorry” doc in the past. One of his many multimedia sites, Moon, can being […]