Ahead of Ai Weiwei's latest showing at the Brooklyn Museum, Shepard Fairey has produced a brand new print as a tribute to the influential Chinese artist. In using his signature style, Fairey chose to reimagine a 2009 portrait of Weiwei in which we see a large surgical scar on the activist's scalp. This photo alludes to a time in 2009 when he required emergency brain surgery as a result of being beaten by the police for investigating the Sichuan earthquake and student casualties of 2008. The proj...
Ahead of Ai Weiwei's latest showing at the Brooklyn Museum, Shepard Fairey has produced a brand new print as a tribute to the influential Chinese artist. In using his signature style, Fairey chose to reimagine a 2009 portrait of Weiwei in which we see a large surgical scar on the activist's scalp. This photo alludes to a time in 2009 when he required emergency brain surgery as a result of being beaten by the police for investigating the Sichuan earthquake and student casualties of 2008. The proj...
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