Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
An exclusive
tour of Ai Weiwei’s new work
Born in
Beijing in 1957, Ai Weiwei is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. He
collaborated with a Swiss architects as the artistic consultant on the Beijing
National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. Sounds like a national hero of art in
China.
However, he has
been openly criticizing China’s practice in human rights, and was arrested by
the authority at the same capital’s airport in 2011 and held for 81 days
without official charges.
As his family
was displaced to a rural area during the Cultural Revolution, where they spent
16 years, he has a keen interest in refugee problems. Now, he has put up a monumental new artwork in a hall in Prague, the capital of Czech Republic,
which has been reluctant to accept refugees.
Enjoy seeing
the video that shows life-threatening hardship refugees are going through.
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