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Friday, March 29, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold

Phoenix Art Museum
1625 N. Central Avenue,
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Oct 03, 2015 To Jan 31, 2016


Detail: Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei took as his inspiration twelve bronze sculptures of Chinese zodiac creatures that once graced an elaborate Qing dynasty fountain in Yuanming Yuan, an 18th century imperial retreat outside Beijing designed by two European Jesuits. Their heads were looted by British and French troops in the Second Opium War in 1860. Today many view them as a symbol of cultural theft. The artist recreated them in 2010 as a subversive commentary on the nature of looting and repatriation. Also part of the exhibition will be a video about the artist and 18th-century Chinese bronze works from Phoenix Art Museum’s collection.

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