The activist who designed Bird's Nest Olympic in China, was selected to build Tate Modern

Keywords Bird's Nest Olympic   Date Saturday, March 06, 2010   From Chinahourly    Views

The activist, who said loud and clear on the issues of human rights in China, was selected to the Commission of Tate Unilever 11th series is based.

The cavernous space has an enormous fissure, a series of spiral chutes, and more recently Loch''''besetzt black.

It is the first artist to live and work in the Asia-Pacific region, should be given to the series in order.

Amnesty International has played a key role in Chinese contemporary art over the last two decades, and recent collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron to design the Bird's Nest Stadium, officially the National Stadium for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 .

After living in the United States 1981 with 1993 Ai returned to Beijing and creates the project to an urn from the Han dynasty 1995th

The triangle shows the artist dropped a ceramic vase old, who fell to earth at his feet.

Model 2007 to 1001, used doors and windows wooden buildings destroyed by the Chinese as a giant sculpture.

The structure of a storm broke out shortly after the artist chooses the crumpled remains.

Around the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, he produced memories of 2009, a China wall of text, remember, under the facade of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, where thousands of bags for children.

They have launched a search for the children who died in the quake and tried to extract more information about the incident politically sensitive.

TODOLI Vicente, director of Tate Modern in London, said:''As Tate continues to expand its representation of art from around the world, we are very pleased with the start of one of the greatest living Chinese artists for the Unilever Series.

Create artist revealed to the public from October 12 in April 25, 2011.

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