{"id":33257,"date":"2016-06-27T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=33257"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:10:54","slug":"ai-wei-wei-designs-his-first-jewellery-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ai-wei-wei-designs-his-first-jewellery-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Wei Wei entwirft seine erste Schmuckkollektion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ai-weiwei-rebar-in-gold-elisabetta-cipriani-gallery-0.jpg\" alt=\"ai-weiwei-rebar-in-gold-elisabetta-cipriani-gallery-0\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nInternationally acclaimed artist and activist Ai Wei Wei has designed his first jewellery pieces in collaboration with Elisabetta Cipriani gallery in London. Entitled &#8220;Rebar in Gold&#8221;, they were on display in Chinese display cabinets designed by the artist at Design Miami\/Basel fair in Basel last week.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;wearable sculptures&#8221; are cast in 24 carat gold, and the shapes echo the steel rebar reinforcement rods Ai used in his piece \u201cStraight\u201d (2008-2012). The installation consists of re-straightened steel rods retrieved from buildings damaged by the Wenchuan earthquake \u2013 a critique of China\u2019s somewhat lax building standards. The artist noted that the bangles are about &#8220;commemoration and memory&#8221;. The softness of the gold means that the 20cm and 60cm pieces can be bent according to the desires of the wearer \u2013 be it a remembrance of life lost or in commemoration of a life ahead.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/10.5361911o.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei's 24 Carat Gold Rebars, which were made from rubble created by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and are held in specially designed cases.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"968\" \/> Ai Weiwei&#8217;s 24 Carat Gold Rebars, which were made from rubble created by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and are held in specially designed cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AiWeiweiStudio_GoldenRebar_04_HIRES-1170x950-1478x1200.jpg\" alt=\"AiWeiwei\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1023\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internationally acclaimed artist and activist Ai Wei Wei has designed &#8220;Rebar in Gold&#8221; as a critique of China\u2019s lax building standards<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[4857,4858,4859,796,141,4860,4861],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-ai-wei-wei","tag-design-miamibasel","tag-elisabetta-cipriani","tag-jewellery","tag-london","tag-rebar-in-gold","tag-wenchuan-earthquake"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ai Wei Wei Designs His First Jewellery Collection Ai Wei Wei Designs His First Jewellery Collection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ai-wei-wei-designs-his-first-jewellery-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ai Wei Wei Designs His First Jewellery Collection Ai Wei Wei Designs His First Jewellery Collection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Internationally acclaimed artist and activist Ai Wei Wei has designed &quot;Rebar in Gold&quot; as a critique of China\u2019s lax building standards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ai-wei-wei-designs-his-first-jewellery-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-27T14:10:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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