2023-09-01 15:52:01
Wall-filling paintings from several epochs – recreated with Lego bricks: This is exactly what you can see in an exhibition at the Berlin Art Week. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is behind the new old works. And a message.
During the Berlin Art Week, the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is exhibiting new and old works in the Neugerriemschneider Gallery. The special feature: For the works, the 66-year-old mainly used Lego bricks. He thus recreated paintings from different eras, as a spokesman for the gallery said.
Ai Weiwei’s Lego artworks take up entire walls.
From the Last Supper to the Water Lilies
The wall-filling works, which were already shown at a preview, recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” or Claude Monet’s water lilies. A statement from the gallery said the angular building blocks alluded to pixels “that make up today’s digital, mass-produced, and globally distributed images.”
“The Last Supper” – recreated with building blocks by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Also political issues
In his Lego works, Weiwei has not only recreated well-known works of art: A blue and white bubbling scene is supposed to show the explosion at the “Nord Stream 2” pipeline in the Baltic Sea regarding a year ago.
It consists of many small building blocks – and should show a big explosion.
According to the information provided, the work points to the artist’s many years of political commitment. The exhibition entitled “know thyself” will open on Wednesday at the Christinenstrasse location in Berlin.
Weiwei has exhibited internationally in the USA, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland and other countries in the past.
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