Ai Weiwei
Museum Exhibition

From Painting to Painting. The art of citation explores this rich and fascinating web of reinterpretations. The exhibition unfolds in eight sections, starting off minimal and conceptual before becoming more colourful, vivid, and pop-inspired. Featuring 150 works from the Mart Collections and key public and private lenders, and nearly 80 artists, the exhibition is structured around the idea that art history is a captivating sequence of ‘covers’: forms and themes from the past travel through time, constantly being reimagined. The exhibition includes Ai Weiwei's Mona Lisa Smeared in Cream (2024). Here she is composed in the artist's iconic toy brick style featuring a smudge on the bottom alluding to a time when paint was thrown on the artwork's glass cover by climate activists.

 

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