Ai Weiwei: Glass artistry
Ai Weiwei collaborates with Adriano Berengo to create an immense glass chandelier, in a project designed to βtalk about death in order to celebrate lifeβ.
Glass: a functional material and silent witness to our daily lives, so unnoticed weβre usually looking straight through it. But in Venice, glass is an art form, and Ai Weiweiβs latest work is designed to make you look. Having mastered many mediums β wood, marble, even social media - the artist-activist is now turning his hand to glass. Through a collaboration with Adriano Berengo, on the glass-making island of Murano, heβs creating an immense chandelier, made up of over 2000 glass bones, organs and other surprising objects. Set to be displayed at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, La Commedia Umana is Aiβs attempt to βtalk about death in order to celebrate lifeβ. Join Alice McKee in Venice, speaking with Ai Weiwei and the Berengo Studios team, as she follows the life cycle of La Commedia Umana, from the furnace to the church.
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