Chateau Lafite,1988
This artwork by Ai Wei Wei is kind
of eye catchy as an empty bottle is strapped by the shoes. Artist has used the
easily available material like shoes and the bottle . This artform looks like
the bottle trapped in between shoes. Green bottle is strapped by the brown
shoes giving the artwork a dark combination. Curator has so well organized the
artworks of the artist that gives the significance to the art. This image of
artist was place in between the artwork made up of mud in the form of the
vessels and on the floor were the many colorful vessels. Basically the organization
of these artworks ,placement of each vessels seems to be more meaningful.
Fig. 1.Chateau Lafite,1988.
Furthermore, this artwork sort of
reflects the idea of criticism as the bottle through which we drink ,is placed
at the shoes, worn at the feet. In other way , bottle can be considered as
something useful which is kept at the level of feet, lowering its value of
usefulness. This might have been used against the government or the high
officials which is the most powerful source in the country and artist has tried to
unsupport their works and policies in this artform. He has tried to show his
respect toward those powerful agent by positioning them in between the feet. In a very simple way by using very common
items , artist has put together those items in a very thoughtful way. About the manufacture of this artwork , I think some expertise might have designed the shoe and artist might have placed it together to give some meaning to it. This artwork by Ai Wei Wei is sort of protest or criticism against some powerful agents or source .
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