Sunday, May 13, 2012

PAPER 12 - Ai Weiwei Cardboard Sculpture


Between April 12 – 15, 2012, Montreal held the annual Paper Show, number 12 this time, in French - PAPIER 12. What impressed me the most was a giant cardboard stature by the Canadian artist Sean Martindale of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The sculpture is 8 feet high. Next to it stands a 40 lb bag of sunflower seeds, the direct reference to Ai WeiWei’s installation at the Tate Modern Gallery in London, England, as seen in a photo in my previous article on Ai Weiwei just below this post.

This sculpture is quite magnificent and I trust you will appreciate it as much as I did.



Artist: Sean Martindale
Love the Future/Free Ai Weiwei
(2011), recycled cardboard, 40lb bag of sunflower seeds.
221 x 152 x 63.5 cm (87" x 60" x 25")
$45,000
The sculputure at KWT contemporary

Photo by Nadia Slejskova
No copyright, free to download.

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