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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Wei-wei Ai
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.
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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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I never had a sense of home.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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