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Ai Weiwei, artist-guru

Contemporary Art | His passport returned, Ai Weiwei is using his newfound freedom of movement to reconnect with Western and international concerns. With a mastery of communication tools and social media, his activism is developing global influence, bringing a new dimension to the artist’s role : that of the guru.

Ai Weiwei au Bon Marché © Patrick Kovarik / AFP
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Ai Weiwei au Bon Marché
© Patrick Kovarik / AFP

Ai Weiwei is omnipresent since the lifting of his house arrest. A professor at Berlin’s Universität der Kunste, he is also actively involved in the refugee crisis, with studios in both Germany and on the island of Lesbos. His frenetic production is astonishing : an exhibition at the Royal Academy, an intervention in the Parisian department store Le Bon Marché, work at the […]

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Ai Weiwei au Bon Marché © Patrick Kovarik / AFP Ai Weiwei à la Royal Academy © Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Portrait of Ai Weiwei in his Berlin studio by Wolfgang Stahr for Artsy © Artsy and Wolfgang Stahr Ai Weiwei, lors de l’inauguration de ’Er Xi, Air de jeux’ le 16 janvier 2016 au Bon Marché à Paris © ISA HARSIN/SIPA

Ai Weiwei au Bon Marché
© Patrick Kovarik / AFP

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