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Since creating portraits of political prisoners for a 2014 exhibition at the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco, iconic Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei has used LEGO or Woma bricks to make pixelated reproductions of politically charged images. Now on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea, a selection of toy-brick built artworks picture famous paintings and news photographs with telling alterations.\u00a0 Ai\u2019s version of Andrew Wyeth\u2019s \u2018Christina\u2019s World\u2019 substitutes farmhouses in the work\u2019s background with the artist\u2019s newly built studio in Portugal, a replica of one destroyed by the Chinese authorities. Elsewhere, he adds President Biden to a reproduction of a news photo of the US Navy collecting debris from the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down near South Carolina in 2023.\u00a0 Here, he adds a dark area in the left of a version of Monet\u2019s Water Lilies, representing the dugout where his exiled family was forced to live during the Cultural Revolution.\u00a0 (On view through Feb 22nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Ai Wei Wei, Water Lilies #4, toy bricks mounted on aluminum, 94 \u00bd x 472 \u00bd inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since creating portraits of political prisoners for a 2014 exhibition at the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco, iconic Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei has used LEGO or Woma bricks to make pixelated reproductions of politically charged images. Now on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery in Chelsea, a selection of toy-brick built artworks picture … <\/p>\n

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