Ai Weiwei by Hans Werner Holzwarth - TASCHEN LIMITED EDITION 2014
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Ai Weiwei by Hans Werner Holzwarth - TASCHEN XXL LIMITED EDITION 2014
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 504 of 1000
Signed by Ai Weiwei.
Text in English, French and German
Six red cut paper latticed chapter separators.
Monochrome picture printed endpapers showing hundreds of hand-drawn sunflower seeds.
Colour picture illustrations on every page with numerous three and four-page foldouts.
Essays from Uli Sigg, Ai’s long-time friend and former Swiss ambassador to China; Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 Documents and hosted the artist’s Fairytale piece; and experts on Chinese culture and politics, Carlos Rojas, William A. Callahan, and James J. Lally.
Bound in cloth printed with a colour picture of reinforcing bars
Wrapped in a silk scarf that is a reproduction of Ai Weiwei’s work Straight, a reference to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.
44x33x7.3cm. (17.3x13x2.9 in.).
10.4Kg. (that’s 23 lbs in Americanese).
724 pages
US$2000
Taschen produces superb art books, and sometimes publishes massive limited editions featuring the work of a particular artist. I have several of these wonderful and huge LEs but this is my favourite.
This comprehensive book was made in close collaboration with Ai Weiwei and features numerous previously unseen images from his archive, as well as statements on his work from exclusive interviews.
Today Ai Weiwei enjoys a reputation far beyond the art world. While his vast social or performance-based interventions and appropriated object-based artworks have secured his place as one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Ai is equally known as a social media phenomenon, a political activist, and an outspoken champion of free expression in his native China, where he earnt an 81-day police detention in 2011.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 504 of 1000
Signed by Ai Weiwei.
Text in English, French and German
Six red cut paper latticed chapter separators.
Monochrome picture printed endpapers showing hundreds of hand-drawn sunflower seeds.
Colour picture illustrations on every page with numerous three and four-page foldouts.
Essays from Uli Sigg, Ai’s long-time friend and former Swiss ambassador to China; Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 Documents and hosted the artist’s Fairytale piece; and experts on Chinese culture and politics, Carlos Rojas, William A. Callahan, and James J. Lally.
Bound in cloth printed with a colour picture of reinforcing bars
Wrapped in a silk scarf that is a reproduction of Ai Weiwei’s work Straight, a reference to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.
44x33x7.3cm. (17.3x13x2.9 in.).
10.4Kg. (that’s 23 lbs in Americanese).
724 pages
US$2000
Taschen produces superb art books, and sometimes publishes massive limited editions featuring the work of a particular artist. I have several of these wonderful and huge LEs but this is my favourite.
This comprehensive book was made in close collaboration with Ai Weiwei and features numerous previously unseen images from his archive, as well as statements on his work from exclusive interviews.
Today Ai Weiwei enjoys a reputation far beyond the art world. While his vast social or performance-based interventions and appropriated object-based artworks have secured his place as one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Ai is equally known as a social media phenomenon, a political activist, and an outspoken champion of free expression in his native China, where he earnt an 81-day police detention in 2011.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
