The exhibition will open on October 12 this year

According to British newspaper The Evening Standard, the following, who will place his installation in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern gallery, will be the famous Chinese artist Ai dissident Veyvey (Ai Weiwei). His work appears in the hall on October 12 and stay there until April 25, 2011.

Ai is known primarily for his work on one of the most unusual buildings in recent years - the Olympic Stadium "Bird's Nest" Beijing. But the most important to his credit is not the point. Ai is one of the key figures in Chinese contemporary art, one of those who produce works of artists from the Middle Kingdom started talking seriously as a phenomenon of world level. On his account - dozens of installations and performances, all of which relate to important political and social themes. One day he invited the 1 001 Chinese "colonize" the city of Kassel, next time created in memory of the victims of Sichuan earthquake, the track of the thousands of children's backpacks.

Ai not only creates art, but also conducts subversive activities on the Internet: before he had a blog, which eventually closed the Chinese government, and then he got himself a "Twitter". In one interview artist says: "to express their views through art, that is, to clothe them in some sort of traditional form, such as painting or sculpture, is not enough ... as a citizen, you must declare their views. Articles, blogs, interviews - is also part of this, otherwise the establishment will perceive you as she wants ... The struggle will always be, until there is power, yet there are people ».

Draft Aya" The names of Sichuan Earthquake " in which the artist worked on the list of victims killed in the terrible disaster of schoolchildren, terribly angered the Chinese authorities. The police raided the hotel room, where we stayed Oh, and severely beat him. Artist operated on in Munich, where he arrived for the preparation of the exhibition.

It is unknown what will be an installation for the Turbine Hall. The sponsor of the project will address the company Unilever. The first artist to be awarded the honor to put their works in the hall, was Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois). In 2000 she settled in there its huge spiders. Since then, Turbine Hall attended by more than 22 million people. The most popular installations have become a huge artificial sun Olafur Eliasson (Olafur Eliasson), «Slides" Carsten Holler (Carsten Hoeller), and a crack in the floor Doris Salcedo (Doris Salcedo).

Material prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: thisislondon.co.uk , artinvestment.ru