FairyTale

Each: titled ‘Fairytale’ in Chinese (on the underside)
Qing dynasty wooden chairs, in two parts:

(i) 41 12 x 22 14 x 17in. (105.5 x 56.5 x 43cm.)

(ii) 40 x 23 x 17 34in. (102 x 58.5 x 45cm.)

Executed in 2007.

Ai WeiWei (born 1957)

Literature
C. Merewether, Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, Sydney 2008, p. 153 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 124).
K. Smith, H.U. Obrist and B. Fibicher, Ai Weiwei, London 2009, p. 158 (illustrated in colour, pp. 39-41).
M. Siemons and A. Weiwei, Ai Weiwei, New York 2009 (illustrated in colour, pp. 46 and 115).

Ai Weiwei, exh. cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015, p. 79 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 80-81).

Exhibited
Kassel, Documenta 12, Fairytale, 2007.
Paris, Galerie Torri, A Few Things That I Know From Them, Braco Dimitrijevic, Hamish Fulton, Ai Weiwei, Zhao Zhao, 2013. Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Ai Weiwei In The Chapel, 2014.