MIAMI EXHIBITIONS: Ai Weiwei: According to What? / Tracey Emin: Angel Without You / 28 Chinese

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Ai Weiwei: According to What?, the first major international survey of Ai's multifaceted oeuvre. The exhibition reveals the practice of Ai Weiwei (b. Beijing, China, 1957) as emerging from an ever-questioning dialogue with the social, political and cultural positions of his homeland and the world at large. 

Ai Weiwei: According to What? Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Florida 331632, USA. 4 December 2013 - 16 March 2014

Ai Weiwei, He Xie, 2011              
Collection of the artist. Installation view: Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 2012. Photo by Cathy Carver.

Ai Weiwei, From top to bottom: Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995/2009, Coloured Vases, 2007-2010. Installation view: Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 2012. Photo by Cathy Carver. 

Ai Weiwei, Map of China, 2008. Collection of the Faurschou Foundation. Image courtesy of the artist.

Tracey Emin: Angel Without You explores how Emin’s neon pieces have played an essential role in the development of her practice. These works mark a shift from Emin's early diaristic and confessional style to a more cryptic and open-ended form of expression.

Tracey Emin: Angel Without You, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami 770 NE 125th Street, Miami, Florida 33161, USA. 6 November . 4 December 2013 - 9 March 2014

Tracey Emin, Never Again!, 2012              
© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

Tracey Emin, Angel Without You, 2013              
© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

Tracey Emin, You Loved me like a Distant Star, 2012              
© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

Tracey Emin, Trust Yourself, 2012              
© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

28 Chinese is the culmination of six research trips to China between 2001 and 2012 where the Rubells visited 100 studios in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Xi'an and acquired works from 28 artists. 

Featured artists: Ai Weiwei, Chen Wei, Chen Zhou, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Hu Qingyan, Hu Xiangqian, Huang Ran, Huang Yong Ping, Lan Zhenghui, Li Ming, Li Ran, Li Shurui, Li Songsong, Li Zhanyang, Liu Chuang, Liu Wei, Qiu Zhijie, Shang Yixin, Wang Guangle, Wang Xingwei, Xie Molin, Xu Zhen, Yan Xing, Zhang Enli, Zhang Huan, Zhao Yao, Zhu Jinshi. 

28 Chinese Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation 95 NW 29th Street, Miami, Florida 33127, USA. 4 November 2013 - 1 August 2014

Ai Weiwei, Table with Two Legs, 2008. Wooden Qing Dynasty table (1644-1911), 23 3/4 x 65 x 37 in. (60.5 x 165 x 94 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

Zhang Huan, 1/2, 1998. C-print on Fuji archival paper, Ed. 1/15, 60 x 49 1/2 in. (152.4 x 125.7 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

Zhang Huan, To Add One Meter to An Anonymous Mountain, 1995. C-print on Fuji archival paper, Ed. 1/15, 41 1/8 x 60 1/2 in. (104.5 x 153.7 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

He Xiangyu, Cola Project- Extraction, 2009. 10 wooden boxes with empty Coca-Cola bottles tagged with time, 178 x 93 1/8 x 12.5 in (452 x 236.5 x 32 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

He Xiangyu, My Fantasy, 2012. Fibreglass, silicone, fabric, human hair, glass and metal, Ed. 1/3, figure: 61 x 18 1/8 x 9 in. (155 x 46 x 23 cm), vitrine: 31 1/2 x 74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in. (80 x 190 x 190 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

Li Ming, Nothing Happened Today #1, 2012. Plastic toys, acrylic, PVC wallpaper, photographs and magnet, variable dimensions. Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

 

Li Zhanyang, Rent-Rent Collection Yard-History Observed- Joseph Beuys & Mao Zedong, 2007. Fibreglass, resin and paint, 75 x 64 x 81 in. (190.5 x 162.5 x 206 cm). Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

Xu Zhen, Spread C-012, 2010. Wood, cellulose sponge, canvas and plaster board, 38 5/8 x 68 x 61 in. (98 x 173 x 155 cm), produced by MadeIn Company. Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.

Xu Zhen, Empire’s Way of Thinking, 2011. Embroidery and plastic on canvas, 106 3/4 x 139 in. (271 x 353 cm), produced by MadeIn Company. Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection.