Ai Weiwei Biography

Ai Weiwei Profile Creativity is one of the most important tools for our brain to increase its knowledge. In almost anything we do, from learning how to reading and write to mastering a painting, there are always many ways to approach it. Sometimes, we may have to challenge our brains to rely on our past experience, use curiosity, and creativity to accomplish our goals. For example, their are many ways to solve a math problem and some of us may solve it differently than others. However, if you are given a math problem that you may not have seen before, you probably have to approach it in a non-traditional way. Perhaps you might test out different methods, look to see if it seems familiar to any previous math problems you did in the past, or

Creating works of art that makes people think and wonder: “Why did he make this?”, “What was the purpose?”, and “How did he even create this?”. From his famous exhibition of “Sunflower Seeds” to his lesser known art “Coca-Cola” vase, Ai Weiwei’s art has become a new way to inform people about political, economic, cultural, and social problems happening in China. In addition, he has claimed to be one of the earliest users to use social media as a platform for people to discuss the messages throughout his works, allowing people from across the world to be involved in China’s social issues. However, like many artists and social activists, Ai Weiwei, had to encountered many obstacles from the Chinese government that not only gave him fear, but threaten his life

In the process of making this project, Ai Weiwei along with a couple other decided to undergo their own personal investigation of the incident. The media and authorities at the time, refused to give up any information on the true number of student who died during the earthquake and failed to report on any information about the construction flaws of the school building. Fearing, the incident, would quickly be undermentioned and forgotten through the media, Ai Weiwei’s team decided to record every single child that went missing during the disaster and posted their names on social media, so that each children would be recognized.

Two months before the opening of “So Sorry”, Ai Weiwei went to testify for his friend, investigating the disaster. However, this would be the Ai Weiwei’s first confrontation with wrath of the chinese authorities. When Ai Weiwei was staying at the hotel in Chengdu, hundreds of police swarmed the hotel, locked Ai Weiwei in the closet and beated him up, preventing him from testifying for his friend. This not only gave fear to Ai Weiwei, but as a result of the beating, he nearly experienced death from internal bleeding in his