The piece is Ai's largest Lego creation.
Titled 'Water Lilies #1' , the nearly 15m-long piece is the largest Lego artwork Ai Weiwei has ever made, according to the Design Museum in London. Photo: AFP
Ai added a dark spot on the artwork to depict the door to the underground dwellings in China's Xinjiang province where his family lived in forced exile after his father, the poet Ai Qing, was labelled an enemy of the state. "He studied in Paris as an artist in the 1920s and later I and him were exiled. There's a black door I integrated into this Monet'sbecause Monet is an artist my father liked. So, this is really a memory piece," he said at a press preview.
A close-up detail of the Lego pieces used for Ai Weiwei's 'Water Lilies #1'. Photo: Ela Bialkowska/OKNO studio
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