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IN NUVO

On the occasion of Patricia Piccinini’s multisensory exhibition Curious Imaginings, we learn about the driving forces behind the Australian artist’s lifelike sculptures.

The Biennale’s current theme intends to encourage the re-exploration of prevailing belief systems.

More than 1,000 years ago, the Chinese poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote his famous piece Grass. This poem aptly presents the metaphor used in Ai Weiwei’s new installation of a similar title, located in Harbour Green Park, Vancouver.

Ai Weiwei makes art. His own government has barred him from leaving China, and so, for the artist and activist, architect and anomaly, the show must go on—without him.