아이웨이웨이(艾未未)의 ＜동화＞와 중국의 공민운동 — 요제프 보이스와 관련하여

Abstract

Ai Weiwei is a representative resistance artist in China. In this paper, I examined his artistic activities before leaving China in 2015, in relation to the civil movement in China and the great trend of the postwar European and American art world . In Chapter 2, Ai Weiwei’s political position was supplemented in context. Ai Weiwei belongs to the liberal camp that values “universal value” among China’s intellectual genealogy. Chapter 3 examines the production process of “Fairy Tale” and discussions surrounding “Fairy Tale” in China, and Chapter 4 examines the artistic evaluation of “Fairy Tale”. In this regard, we looked at the concept of “extended art” proposed by German artist Joseph Beuys in the 1970s and the artistic tradition that Kassel Dokumenta has continued. Beuys’s concept of “expanded art” develops into a “social sculpture” that breaks away from the existing concept of art genre and creates a society that is beneficial to human life. When Beuys explains what he said, “Everyone is an artist”, it means that humans are creative beings and can produce various things by showing creativity, which is in line with Ai Weiwei’s theory of art, which sought to create new human possibilities through “Fairy Tale”. Ai Weiwei was heavily influenced by the “freedom of expression” of American society in the 1980s and European art since the 1960s, and returned to China to combine civic movements with emerging arts. Ai Weiwei has been working on three keywords: the growth of civil society as a future blueprint, freedom of expression pursuing it, and the combination of technology in its method.