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AI WEIWEI

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist born in 1957 in Beijing. In the first year of his life he and his family were exiled to remote regions of China because of the ideas of his father, the poet Ai Qing, considered against the regime. Several years later he was rehabilitated and returned to Beijing with his family. In 1981 the young Weiwei moved to the USA to study English. Here he visited museums and galleries and was influenced by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. He gathered around him several Chinese artists the majority of whom were against the Chinese regime. He returned to China in 1993 because of his father’s illness. Many of Ai Weiwei’s works are instruments of criticism against the Chinese government and want to arouse reflection on the social and political issues of the contemporary world. In addition to countless installations and architectural works he created for illycaffà the collection of coffee cups and cappuccino illy Art Collection.

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