What Is The Irrupt Weiwei

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Weiwei used his talent in art to exploit the wrong doing of Chinese Government particularly their corruption and the unfreedom of expressing one’s thoughts. He constructed an artwork in titled So Sorry/Remembering in front of the Haus der Kunst (Munich) that consist of nine thousand children’s backpacks written in Chinese characters which read as “She lived happily for seven years in this world” (a quote from a mother whose child died in the earthquake). Weiwei inspired to use backpacks after his visitation in Sichuan where he saw a lot of student’s dead body, bags and study materials everywhere.

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