Dropping a Han Dynasty urn

Dropping a Han Dynasty urn
 (2015)

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
plastic on composition board
Measurements
(a-c) 240.4 × 641.3 cm (overall)
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
2015.553.a-c
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Loti & Victor Smorgon Fund, 2017
© Ai Weiwei Studio
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Concepts and Ideas Human Figures Performance Art
Subjects (specific)
Ai, Weiwei antiquities (object genre) artists (visual artists) breaking ceramic ware (visual works) destruction (process) men (male humans) urns
Movements
Contemporary (style of art)

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