Ai Weiwei: According to What? - Cube Light

             February 23, 2013: Ai Weiwei: According to What? Exhibition at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. [IMG_5716-S95]

Information plaque reads:
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Ai Weiwi
Chinese, b. Beijing, 1957-

 Cube Light
2008

Glass crystals, lights, and metal

Joseph H. Hirshhorm Bequest and Purchase Funds, 2012 (12.12)

Begun in 2002, Ai’s celebrated chandelier series includes large-scale installations composed of thousands of glass crystals. Cube Light, a seminal piece in this body of work, extends Ai’s interest in re-examining Minimalist artistic strategies and, more specifically, in questioning perceived solidity and exactitude of the iconic cube. The manipulation of materials that interrogate conventions of culture, history, politics, and tradition. According to Ai, an important inspiration for the series was a scene in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1928 film October, in which the shaking crystal chandelier suggests instability of a society undergoing profound change. 
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