Ai Weiwei by Venice

As a Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Zuecca Projects will present, across two locations in Venice, the Zitelle complex, home of Zuecca Projects, and the church of Sant’ Antonin, an exhibition of new works by Ai Weiwei.

The show, entitled Disposition and curated by Maurizio Bortolotti, comprises landmark works showing Ai Weiwei at the height of his artistic and polemic powers. In Zuecca is presented an expanded version of the artist’s acclaimed sculptural installation Straight, first exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. in 2012. Straight is formed from multiple tons of steel bars recovered from the collapsed schools in which more than five thousand children perished during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China. For the Sant’ Antonin church location, Ai Weiwei has specially conceived a new work, creating a dialogue between the artist and the existing architecture, and as a contemporary Chinese response to the city of Venice. The exhibition, open to the public from 29 May to 15 September 2013​, represents a new chapter in the long-standing historical relationship—founded on trade, as well as religious and cultural exchange—that exists between China and Venice.

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