Transport, storage, unpacking and installation
In March 2015, we were responsible for setting up the exhibition Ruptures by the Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, organized by the Faurschou Foundation.
The task included, among other things, storage, transport and unpacking of several different works of art, where we, at the behest of and in collaboration with the Faurschou Foundation, were responsible for setting up the various works.
About the exhibition “Ruptures”
Ai Weiwei Ruptures is presented by the Faurschou Foundation, and runs from 20 March to 15 April 2016.
The exhibition highlights some of Ai Weiwei’s main works, i.a. the famous ‘Sunflower Seeds’, which was exhibited at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall back in 2010.
In addition, the work ‘Straight’, which consists of 73 tons of reinforcing steel collected from the earthquake in Sichuan, where many thousands of children and young people lost their lives, can also be seen.
Other works include ‘Colored Vases, 2015’, 19 painted vases from the Neolithic Age (5000-3000 BCE) and the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE). And ‘Grapes, 2014’ – 40 antique stools from the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911).
About the artist Ai Weiwei
Chinese visual artist and political activist
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist.
Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father’s exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of “tofu-dreg schools” in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Ai Weiwei’s exhibition business has been worldwide and has often taken the form of actions and installations, such as for Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007, where 1001 Chinese participated as visitors to the city during the three-month exhibition period – or in 2010, when he filled the large hall in the Tate Modern in London with 100 million handmade and painted sunflower seeds in porcelain.
While The Little Mermaid was on loan to the world exhibition EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, a video installation by Ai Weiwei was set up in her place at Langelinie in Copenhagen, which transmitted directly from the Danish pavilion at the exhibition.
