{"id":2225,"date":"2024-09-24T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:53:49","slug":"ai-weiwei-sculpture-purposefully-broken-during-exhibition-opening-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/ai-weiwei-sculpture-purposefully-broken-during-exhibition-opening-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei Sculpture Purposefully Broken During Exhibition Opening in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_ai-weiwei\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"ai-weiwei\">Ai Weiwei<\/a>\u00a0seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist on Friday evening in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The destroyed work was Ai\u2019s blue-and-white\u00a0<em>Porcelain Cube<\/em>, which was included in a survey on Ai titled \u201cWho am I?\u201d at the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_palazzo-fava\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"palazzo-fava\">Palazzo Fava<\/a>\u00a0in Bologna, which opened to the public on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Footage of the destruction was captured on CCTV and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted to Instagram<\/a>\u00a0by Ai. In the video, the man steps onto the plinth that holds the\u00a0<em>Cube<\/em>\u00a0and pushes it forward, shattering the work. He then lifted up a portion of the broken porcelain over his head. The work was installed in an atrium near the museum giftshop and ticket office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The Bologna edition of Milan-based daily newspaper\u00a0<em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">identified<\/a>\u00a0the man as 57-year-old Czech Vaclav Pisvejc, who was stopped by museum security and detained until police arrived. It is still unclear how he entered the museum during the invite-only reception. He was arrested for \u201cdestruction, dispersion, deterioration, defacement, soiling and illicit use of cultural or landscape assets,\u201d according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Arturo Galansino, the exhibition\u2019s curator and the director general of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi \u00a0in Florence,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>, \u201cUnfortunately, I know the author of this inconsiderate gesture from a series of disturbing and damaging episodes over the years involving various exhibitions and institutions in Florence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Pisvejc has previously committed acts of vandalism related to art. In 2018, he attacked the artist Marina Abramovi\u0107 by smashing a painting over her head in Florence, and in 2023, he climbed naked, with the word \u201cCensored\u201d painted onto his body, onto the famed statue of\u00a0<em>Hercules and Cacus<\/em>\u00a0in Florence\u2019s Piazza della Signoria during an award ceremony, according to\u00a0<em>Corriere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">After seeing the work\u2019s destruction, Ai said, \u201cI hope for his sake that he didn\u2019t hurt himself\u00a0on the pieces of porcelain,\u201d according to\u00a0<em>Corriere<\/em>. The work was removed and covered. A photograph of the unbroken piece is to be placed on view where the work once stood. The exhibition, which runs through next May, opened as planned on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by\u00a0Ai Weiwei\u00a0seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist on Friday evening in Italy. 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