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Installation consisting of thousands of ancient axe heads and stone tools. Grouped according to size and shape, they lie flat in tidy rows like cobblestones on a road.

Installation consisting of thousands of ancient axe heads and stone tools. Grouped according to size and shape, they lie flat in tidy rows like cobblestones on a road.

Installation consisting of thousands of ancient axe heads and stone tools. Grouped according to size and shape, they lie flat in tidy rows like cobblestones on a road.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei 艾未未

Still Life 靜物

1993–2000

Ai Weiwei’s presentation of thousands of Stone Age axes in this installation questions the value of the ancient object. The artist and social activist liberates these tools from their historical and archaeological context, repositioning them in an artistic framework with this flat, minimalist display. Ai is known for using antiquities in his work to interpret history. He explores the remnants of Chinese heritage and its relationship to current geopolitical concerns.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

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Object Number:

2012.51

Object Type:

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Ai Weiwei (Artist)

Medium:

stone

Date:

1993–2000

Dimensions:

dimensions variable

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Ai Weiwei

About the Maker:

Ai Weiwei (born 1957, Beijing) graduated from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York in 1993. He is an artist and social activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, curation, and social criticism. Ai lives and works in Cambridge.

Ai Weiwei Installation Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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