China feels it has the “right to redefine the global world order”, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei told AFP on Wednesday ahead of the opening in London of his first design-focused exhibition. The show at the capital’s Design Museum features hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist since the 1990s, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks, and draws on his love of artefacts and traditional craftsmanship. The son of a poet revered by former communist leaders, 65-year-old Ai is perhaps China’s best-known modern artist and helped design the famous “Bird’s Nest” stadium for Beijing’s 2008 Olympics. But he fell out of favour after criticising the Chinese government and was imprisoned for 81 days in 2011 and eventually left for Germany four years later. An exhibition by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei featuring monumental site-specific installations. Video: Justine Gerardy/AFPTV/AFP Among the artefacts in the new exhibition are thousands of fragments from Ai’s porcelain sculptures which were destroyed when the bulldozers moved in to dismantle his studio in Beijing in 2018. Launching the show which opens on Friday, Ai, said he believed China was “not moving into...
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