Comments on: ai weiwei: stacked – an installation of 760 bikes http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/ since 1999 home of design culture: designboom is the first and largest independent publication dedicated to architecture and design Thu, 23 May 2013 15:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Bryan http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-152880 Bryan Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:11:19 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-152880 Wouldn't want to be in charge of dusting that display after a couple years!!! Wouldn’t want to be in charge of dusting that display after a couple years!!!

]]> By: Jolieme http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-141579 Jolieme Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:16:37 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-141579 This is weirdly exciting,because I suppose you expect them to come crashing down at any moment,imagine the amount of nervous energy he had doing this - Surreal. This is weirdly exciting,because I suppose you expect them to come crashing down at any moment,imagine the amount of nervous energy he had doing this – Surreal.

]]> By: Daniel Turnbull http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-136775 Daniel Turnbull Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:27:03 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-136775 You're a bit late on this story - www.butteredtoast.net/7/post/2013/01/760-bicycles-stacked-up.html You’re a bit late on this story –

http://www.butteredtoast.net/7/post/2013/01/760-bicycles-stacked-up.html

]]> By: santo cereixo http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-136220 santo cereixo Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:35:18 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-136220 If by moving a wheel...the others could move...then that would be awesome!!! If by moving a wheel…the others could move…then that would be awesome!!!

]]> By: SJS http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-135662 SJS Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:58:05 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-135662 How many pics of wheels do you need??? How many pics of wheels do you need???

]]> By: mackenzie collins http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-stacked-an-installation-of-760-bikes/#comment-135620 mackenzie collins Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.designboom.com/?p=95436#comment-135620 What I hate most about contemporary art like this is- it steals an image from real life -a shipyard, a production line, a bicycle workshop- and recreates it as 'art'. The original was ART, the true environment that these bikes were manufactured in, this is a sterilised copy, and all the poorer for it. A sanitised version for the chattering classes. We should celebrate these real, fantastic factories and workshops, maybe get more creative people into manufacturing that way. What I hate most about contemporary art like this is-
it steals an image from real life -a shipyard, a production line, a bicycle workshop- and recreates it as ‘art’.
The original was ART, the true environment that these bikes were manufactured in, this is a sterilised copy, and all the poorer for it. A sanitised version for the chattering classes.

We should celebrate these real, fantastic factories and workshops, maybe get more creative people into manufacturing that way.

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