As part of an ongoing twentyyear project, curator hans ulrich obrist recruited. When he was a teenager, obrist ai weiwei speaks, 2011, etc. Ai weiwei built his own bookshelves as a child, even as his father was. This item is only on the shelf at the following berkelouw bookshops. Seeing this on the shelf at the store, id hoped to find a rich background of. Ai weiwei s work is an audacious blend of old and new, western and eastern, serious and irreverent. A new edition of conversations between the artist ai wei wei and curator hans ulrich obrist, coming up to the present day. Ai weiwei speaks by with hans ulrich obrist village. Ai weiwei speaks with hans ulrich obrist berkelouw books. Art, human rights, and the power of writing a letter. Artist ai weiwei has had a complicated relationship.
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I learned the most about ai weiwei and his process in this interview. Hansulrich obrist tops list of art worlds most powerful. He is the author of ways of curating and, with ai weiwei, of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ai weiwei speaks. Since 2006 he has been codirector of the serpentine gallery, london. Ais contribution to hans ulrich obrists 20 book do it. Ways of curating is a compendium of the insights obrist has gained from his years of extraordinary work in the art world. The 9 books every artist should have on their shelf artwork archive. Hans ulrich obrist in conversation with the artist and filmmaker hito steyerl and the philosopher prof. With a life as transparently lived as that of ai weiweithe artist who began. Hans ulrich obrist is a curator at the serpentine, a gallery in londons kensington gardens that was once a teahouse and is now firmly established as a center for contemporary art.
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