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I have been fortunate to see several of his pieces in person. Ai weiwei is a conceptual artist, highly critical of society and dedicated to the creation of and friction between realities. Subsequently he relocated to the united states in 1981 and lived there until 1993. Open in his criticism of the chinese government, ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. Ai weiwei was the artistic consultant for the project.

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