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    "title": "Patrick Derom Gallery \u00e0 Bruxelles pr\u00e9sente la premi\u00e8re grande r\u00e9trospective consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 Ai Weiwei en Belgique",
    "modified_at": "2026-06-24 09:30:07",
    "published_at": "2026-06-24 09:28:00",
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    "body": "<p style=\"text-align: left\">Patrick Derom Gallery consacre &agrave; l&#039;artiste chinois Ai Weiwei sa premi&egrave;re grande r&eacute;trospective en Belgique. </p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Artiste dissident chinois, <strong>Ai Weiwei</strong> est l&rsquo;une des figures les plus importantes et les plus reconnues de l&rsquo;art contemporain international. Cette renomm&eacute;e repose non seulement sur son &oelig;uvre artistique, mais aussi sur son engagement constant en faveur des libert&eacute;s politiques et sociales.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Tout au long de sa vie, Ai Weiwei a questionn&eacute; le pouvoir de l&rsquo;&Eacute;tat et les m&eacute;canismes de r&eacute;pression culturelle. &Agrave; travers des performances provocatrices, des installations et des films, cet artiste conceptuel est devenu une ic&ocirc;ne mondiale de la libert&eacute; d&rsquo;expression. Plac&eacute; sous surveillance puis d&eacute;tenu par les autorit&eacute;s chinoises, il conna&icirc;t mieux que quiconque le prix que peut co&ucirc;ter la libert&eacute; artistique.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Pour Ai Weiwei, l&rsquo;art est un outil de transformation, une mani&egrave;re de susciter de nouvelles interrogations et d&rsquo;ouvrir des perspectives in&eacute;dites. Son travail s&rsquo;appuie fr&eacute;quemment sur le principe du ready-made et sur la r&eacute;appropriation d&rsquo;objets existants.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">L&rsquo;exposition pr&eacute;sent&eacute;e par Patrick Derom Gallery rassemble plus de cinquante &oelig;uvres r&eacute;parties sur deux sites situ&eacute; dans le quartier du Sablon.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">La r&eacute;trospective met en dialogue des &oelig;uvres embl&eacute;matiques des ann&eacute;es 1990, comme la se\u0301rie photographique <em>Study of Perspective</em>, avec des pie\u0300ces iconiques telles que <em>Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo</em>, ou\u0300 l&rsquo;artiste confronte he\u0301ritage culturel et critique contemporaine. L&rsquo;exposition s&rsquo;e\u0301tend e\u0301galement a\u0300 ses travaux plus re\u0301cents, notamment ses compositions en LEGO comme <em>Illumination</em>, ainsi que sa pratique autour des boutons avec <em>F.U.C.K.</em>.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Les &oelig;uvres sculpturales <em>Grapes </em>et <em>Strength</em>, de me\u0302me que les installations monumentales <em>Left Right Studio Material </em>et <em>Snake Ceiling</em>, te\u0301moignent de l&rsquo;e\u0301largissement constant de son langage plastique. A\u0300 travers cette diversite\u0301 de me\u0301diums et de formats, la re\u0301trospective met en lumie\u0300re une &oelig;uvre cohe\u0301rente, traverse\u0301e par une re\u0301flexion continue sur les syste\u0300mes de pouvoir, la me\u0301moire culturelle et la liberte\u0301 d&rsquo;expression.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Paralle\u0300lement, une exposition se de\u0301ploie au Muse\u0301e E\u0301mile Verhaeren. Celle-ci trouve son origine dans le lien singulier entre le poe\u0300te belge et Ai Qing, pe\u0300re de l&rsquo;artiste, qui fut le premier a\u0300 traduire les poe\u0300mes de Verhaeren en chinois.</p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Un catalogue est publie\u0301 a\u0300 l&rsquo;occasion des expositions Ai Weiwei a\u0300 la Patrick Derom Gallery (18 septembre au 14 novembre 2026, Bruxelles) et au Muse\u0301e E\u0301mile Verhaeren (20 septembre au 13 de\u0301cembre 2026, Puurs-Sint-Amands). Avec des contributions de Edouard Derom, John Tancock, Thomas Crow, Lee Ambrozy, Rik Hemmerijckx et Lieven Van Den Abeele.</p><hr /><p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Ai Weiwei : The Art of Defiance<br>\u200bDu 19 septembre au 14 novembre 2026<br>\u200bPatrick Derom Gallery<br>\u200bWolstraat / Rue aux Laines 1<br>\u200bGrote Hertstraat / Rue du Grand Cerf 6<br>\u200b1000 Bruxelles</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Contact presse</strong></p><p style=\"text-align: left\">Micha Pycke<br>\u200bClub Paradis<br>\u200b+32 (0)486 680 070<br>\u200b<a href=\"mailto:micha@clubparadis.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">micha@clubparadis.be</a></p><hr /><div\n    id='gallery-d981fa43-e5e2-4ee2-834d-e3c199bbbd0f'\n    class='release-content-gallery release-content-gallery--layout-contained'\n    data-component='chromatic-gallery,image-zoom-popup'\n    data-chromatic-gallery-padding='S'\n    data-chromatic-gallery-thumbnail-size='M'\n    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