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Describing "The Bird's Nest," the "intoxicatingly" beautiful stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Chinese Conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, The New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote, "The crisscrossing columns create a Piranesian world of dark corners and odd leftover spaces--an effect that intensifies as you ascend through the structure. Light filters through the translucent roof panels, and a network of drainpipes suspended from the roof adds a tough, utilitarian feel. The feverish play of light and shadows is reminiscent of the set for a German Expressionist film. From your seat, you gaze out at the surrounding skyline, where rows of generic housing towers seem to extend to eternity." This large-format, two-volume set features one book on the construction of the stadium from 2005 to 2008, and another that presents The 24 Hour Series, a sequence of photographs taken of the stadium by Ai Weiwei once an hour for one day and night. Also featured are the major installation created by the artist and architects for the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture and related works produced for an exhibition in London in the autumn of 2008.
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Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron: Beijing, Venice, London
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Two hardcover books without dustjackets as issued in printed slipcase, 124 and 112 pages; as new condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # AiWeAl500
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Ai Weiwei : Beijing, Venice, London / Herzog & de Mauron - (2 Volumes)
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1. Aufl. Text: English (Sehr gut erhalten - neuwertig! / in very good condition - as new) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 11300 2 OLeinenbände im Schuber / 2 Hardcover (cloth) in slipcase. Seller Inventory # 400073
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Ai Weiwei / Herzog & de Meuron: Beijing, Venice, London. (English)
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Walther König, Köln / Albion, 2009
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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. W: 2 Volumes: 39 x 30 cm, 2 Leinenbände im Schuber / 2 Hardcover (cloth) in slipcase. - "Beijing, Venice, London" is published to mark the collaboration between Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron. Volume I of this large-format, twin-volume gallery edition documents the construction of the National Stadium, Beijing, through a series of 100 photographs taken between 2005 and 2008. Reflection on The Birds Nest continues in Volume II by means of the 24 Hour Series a sequence of photographs taken of the stadium by Ai Weiwei once an hour during a day and a night. Also featured is the major installation created by the artist and architects for the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008, along with a number of related works produced for Ai Weiweis exhibition at Albion, London, in the autumn of 2008, curated by Charles Merewether. In addition to Merewethers essay exploring the works produced for each of the three cities and an interview between Ai Weiwei and Jacques Herzog commissioned by Parkett, is an essay by Aaron Betsky, Director of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008, which addresses the photographs documenting the construction process of the National Stadium Beijing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1616514075223
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