Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist best known. His statements and his cultural proposal are discussed, but it is indisputable the fame conquered in the West. Among his most famous installations are works made with 99 tons of steel, or 8 million sunflower seeds. Now the Chinese artist, surprisingly, has made a collection of jewelry. For the debut was chosen London, in the gallery of Elisabetta Cipriani: the British city is more receptive to the ideas of Ai Weiwei than Beijing. “I have always loved jewelry, history, the sense of the past,” explained the creative Chinese. The result are armors of gold in miniature, bracelets of different lengths. Armor in the sense of the iron rods which support the concrete pillars of buildings. The idea of the collection, in fact, refers to a tragic event: the earthquake in China in 2008 killed 90 thousand people under the rubble. Ai Weiwei has visited the disaster sites and it remained troubled. And he collected 200 tons of twisted steel bars. A form that has now decided to turn into jewelry, in memory of that event tragic. In any case, “I loved working with the 24-carat gold, because it is very malleable,” he told at New York Times. Federico Graglia
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