Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, English pronunciation: (help·info); born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary performer and activist. Ai grew going on in the far-off north-west of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father’s exile. As an activist, he has been openly necessary of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated doling out corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption repugnance following the collapse of “tofu-dreg schools” in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport upon 3 April, for “economic crimes”. He was detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a necessary instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation’s most vocal diplomatic commentators.
Ai Weiwei encapsulates embassy conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs and public works. In operate this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display the Chinese diplomatic and social issues.
After inborn allowed to depart China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, in Cambridge, UK, with his family, and, since 2021 in Portugal.
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