{"id":17375,"date":"2026-01-29T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=17375"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:51:06","slug":"ai-weiwei-aftershock","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/en\/event\/ai-weiwei-aftershock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei: Aftershock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #bc982f;\">An exhibition showcasing Ai Weiwei&#8217;s five-decade career, from works created in New York in the 80s to new sculptures created in Ukraine in 2025.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The exhibition is arranged as a dialogue between the artist and Palazzo Ardinghelli. The show features a series of powerful works created after the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan and dedicated to the memory of its losses. One of these works is Straight, a seminal piece for Ai Weiwei that is being shown in L\u2019Aquila for the first time in three different spaces. This sculpture, like the other works in the exhibition, underscores the lasting impact of natural catastrophes and human-generated conflicts, highlighting themes such as corruption and tragedy. It celebrates human resilience and the power of the drive to create.<\/p>\n<p>On display are almost seventy works, some of them displayed for the first time in a museum, spanning Weiwei\u2019s entire artistic career: installations, videos, photographs, sculptures conceived as paintings and iconic subjects by artists like Munch, Van Gogh and Ed Ruscha re-interpreted using toy bricks.<\/p>\n<p>He experiments, connects, collects, recycles and invents in a way that is never just a pure exercise in form. Through variety and the subversion of traditional values, he encourages us to look at the world from different points of view. Weiwei\u2019s work is rooted in his personal experience, yet its significance is universal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"conversazioni d&#039;autore: Ai Weiwei\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLysZc0-1Y8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>header: stills from the music video Dumbass, 2013, 5min 13 sec, cinematography by Christopher Doyle, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition showcasing Ai Weiwei&#8217;s five-decade career, from works created in New York in the 80s to new sculptures created in Ukraine in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17371,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[221],"class_list":["post-17375","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_exhibition"],"acf":{"colore_testata":"","altri_link_acquisto":false,"mostra_permanente":false,"sottotitolo":"","sottotitolo_vero":"","info_varie":"<p>curated by <strong>Tim Marlow<\/strong><\/p>\n","apb_row":[{"apb_block_type":"colonne","apb_col_type":"2","apb_col_ratio":"1_2","apb_color_scheme":"grigio_nero","apb_box_opt":"fullw","apb_margin":"default","col_1":{"apb_col_type":"text","apb_img":17923,"apb_img_size":"square","apb_text":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17923 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cover_AiWeiwei-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cover_AiWeiwei-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cover_AiWeiwei-768x920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maxxilaquila.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cover_AiWeiwei.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n","apb_link_type":"default","apb_link":null},"col_2":{"apb_col_type":"text","apb_img":false,"apb_img_size":"","apb_text":"<h4>publication<\/h4>\n<h1>AI WEIWEI. Aftershock.<\/h1>\n<p><em>curated by Tim Marlow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>bilingual edition in Italian and English<\/em><br \/>\n<em>MAXXI Edition, 2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>40 pages<\/em><br \/>\n<em>20 x 24 cm<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u20ac 7<\/em><br \/>\nISBN 9788894764666<\/p>\n<p>This guide explores the artistic output of Ai Weiwei, one of the world\u2019s most influential contemporary artists, starting with the works on display at the<br \/>\nMuseum\u2019s L\u2019Aquila branch. It traces a journey through his entire career, featuring installations, videos, photographs and sculptures that challenge the present and stir the conscience. Inspired in part by his recent visit to L\u2019Aquila and the traces of the earthquake still visible in the city, the artist transforms icons of art history, from Munch to Van Gogh, into surprising works created with coloured bricks, blending playfulness with social commentary. This intense visual experience invites reflection on responsibility, crisis and humanity in our time. 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