Print 
PDFArtist Ai Weiwei banned from using Lego to build Australian artwork
“An earlier major exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s work, held inside Alcatraz island penitentiary in the San Francisco bay, featured works made out of the plastic construction toys….
The piece, titled Trace, showed pixelated images of more than 175 prisoners of conscience including Nelson Mandela, Edward Snowden and Nobel prize-winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The Danish toymaker is expanding its presence in China as growth in the US – its biggest market – has slowed. In September, the company reported that Asia provided the highest regional growth rate.”
Artist Ai Weiwei vows to accept offers of Lego from around the world
@Large at Alcatraz
***
(19)