"Running from 15 January to 22 February, the as-yet-untitled show includes works from across four decades of Ai's career. Among them are his large-scale Lego works based on famous artworks, including versions of Surfing (After Hokusai) and Water Lilies, a reinterpretation of Monet's triptych of the same title. To mark his India debut, he will also show new Lego works based on Pichwais, intricate cloth paintings depicting devotional Hindu subjects, as well as homages to the country's storied Modernist painters V.S. Gaitonde and S.H. Raza."
"On show for the first time is the installation Whitewashed Remnants of History of the State of Emerging Future Works, for which the artist has painted over locally sourced antiques including chairs and vases. F.U.C.K. (2024), for which Ai has sewed metal buttons onto four military stretchers to spell out the titular expletive, is also being exhibited. This work was the centrepiece of his show at Lisson gallery in London last year."
Ai Weiwei will stage his first solo exhibition in India at Nature Morte in New Delhi from 15 January to 22 February. The show spans four decades and includes large-scale Lego reinterpretations of iconic works such as Surfing (After Hokusai) and Water Lilies, alongside new Lego pieces based on devotional Pichwais and homages to V.S. Gaitonde and S.H. Raza. The exhibition presents the installation Whitewashed Remnants of History of the State of Emerging Future Works and F.U.C.K. (2024), featuring metal buttons sewn onto military stretchers. All works are for sale, some pre-sold, and the gallery is collaborating with Continua. Ai has been vocal against censorship and repression, and his criticism of the Chinese government led to arrest.
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