Ai Weiwei is an extraordinary Chinese contemporary artist. His works made bold statements that sometimes called out his disagreements with the government. The sculpture presented above is known as Forever Bicycles. Weiwei used thousands of bicycles to build this sculpture. This piece referred to China's mass production through the use of, literally, thousands of bicycles repeating in a circle. It is obvious that China's production of objects is very large considering how massive the size of this sculpture is and they were not even affected by the loss of this many bicycles. Something I think that is very interesting about this artwork is that usually bicycles allow people to roam freely and move around but these bicycles cannot be taken apart or the whole structure will be ruined. The intertwining of the bicycles contradict the actual purpose of them.
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