Ai Weiwei
Subtitle: restablecer memorias = resetting memories
By: textos, María Luisa Aguilar [and six others]
Contributors: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Edition: Primera edición = First edition.
Series: Folio MUAC -- 73; Folio MUAC -- 73.
Publisher: MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM; MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; RM Verlag; RM VERLAG; RM/MUAC
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México; Monterrey, México; Barcelona
Language: spa
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9788417047931; 9786079355159; 9786073016162
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Restablecer memorias; Resetting memories; Ai Weiwei.; Ai Weiwei. English.
Description: Despite the geographical distance between China and Mexico, Ai Weiwei explores the traumas experienced in these two places in a narrative that appeals to our obligation to construct social memory. This project brings together the concern represented by the destruction of cultural heritage and our relationship with our ancestors; the trauma signified by the attack on the future, which presumes violence against young people. Ai Weiwei presents his greatest historical and political readymade at the MUAC: the Wang Family Ancestral Hall (2015), a Ming-dynasty-era wooden temple that registers the destruction of Chinese cultural heritage in the violence of revolution, the loss of traditional rural society, and the commodification of antiquities. These four-hundred-year-old ruins epitomize the complex negotiations between new and old, and this artwork marks the period of constant surveillance that the artist endured in Beijing after his 2011 arrest, before he went into exile in Europe.In 2016, Ai Weiwei visited Mexico and this provided the motivation for a new project about the trauma associated with losing the future. Through a documentary film and a series of portraits made with Lego pieces, the artist explores the personal and social consequences of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26-27, 2014. This project makes a bid for constructing memory as an invisible tie that binds us to our ancestors and maps out an obligation to the generations that succeed us.
Notes: Published on occasion of the exhibition "Ai Weiwei. Resetting Memories", April 13-October 6, 2019, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City ; November 28, 2019-March 8, 2020 ; MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Algo bello ya no estáʺ. Sobre el quebranto de la memoria = Something Beautiful Is Missingʺ: On the Decay of Memory / Cuauhtémoc Medina; title: El Salón ancestral de la familia Wang de Ai Weiwei = Ai Weiweiœs Wang Family Ancestral Hall / Cui Cancan; title: No es bello. Un artista se enfrenta al sistema = Itœs Not Beautiful. An Artist Takes on the System / Evan Osnos; title: Cuando no hay oscuridad, no hay luz. Una conversación = When Thereœs No Darkness, Thereœs No Light. A Conversation / Cuauhtémoc Medina; title: Ai Weiwei Entrevistas para la película Ser = Interviews Related to the To Be Film; title: La desaparición forzada de 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa = The Forced Disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa Students / John Gibler; title: Ayotzinapa: defender la dignidad = Ayotzinapa: Defending Dignity / María Luisa Aguilar Rodríguez; title: Santiago Aguirre Espinosa; title: Semblanza; title: Biographical sketch; title: Catálogo = Catalog.