Ai Weiwei - The Papercut Portfolio Pre-order

Papercutting is a traditional Chinese art going back 2,000 years. The colored, intricately cut papers are used in festivities, for prayers, and as everyday decoration. In this exclusive papercut portfolio, Ai Weiwei employs the medium to reflect on his life and work.

These eight papercuts, exclusively created for TASCHEN, are now presented in a limited edition on large-format, high-quality red paper. Each papercut is signed by the artist and collected in a portfolio accompanied by explanatory notes by Chin-Chin Yap, who has extensively worked with Ai Weiwei, most recently as a writer and co-producer on several films. Through these eight pieces, Ai offers a beautiful, personal retrospective in a unique format.

Medium: Portfolio of eight papercuts, in clothbound clamshell box. - New Start Editions

Size: 60 x 60 cm each
Collector's edition of 250 portfolio's
All prints are signed by Ai Weiwei. The portfolio is numbered.
Price: € 14,500
Price increases as edition sells out. Expected delivery: October 2019.

This limited edition Ai Weiwei papercut portfolio is exclusively available for pre-order at Taschen HERE 

- JM

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