{"id":8196,"date":"2018-06-21T05:51:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:57:40","slug":"216201810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/216201810\/","title":{"rendered":"In the frame: The story behind Ai Weiwei&#8217;s Fountain of Light at Louvre Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content text-content side-padding\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Each week in this new series we analyse a piece of art that is on show in the UAE. Here we look at the remarkable \u2018Fountain of Light\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When Louvre Abu Dhabi opened last November, Ai Weiwei\u2019s dazzling\u00a0<em>Fountain of Light<\/em>, a twisting steel structure containing 32,400 glass crystals, quickly became a social media star. Placed in the last gallery of the permanent collection, the sculpture caps the journey through the museum. Above it, a panel has been removed in the ceiling, as if the structure itself winds outwards towards the starry dome above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many visitors assumed the work, with its healthy dose of bling, was commissioned expressly for Abu Dhabi. While this version of the artwork was made and adapted for Louvre Abu Dhabi, Ai first made a similar version in 2007 for Liverpool \u2013 a city\u00a0rather less known for its sparkling glamour. It was installed in the\u00a0Victorian-era Albert Dock \u2013 site of Tate Liverpool, which commissioned the work. The reflection of the glass pendants\u00a0danced on the surface, an aqueous element that\u00a0appeared in its title,\u00a0<em>Working Progress (Fountain of Light)<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But the real story doesn\u2019t even start there \u2013\u00a0<em>Fountain of Light\u00a0<\/em>is based on a Russian work from nearly a century ago. Ai\u2019s sculpture reimagines an unbuilt structure from 1919, Vladimir Tatlin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Monument to the Third International<\/em>. Tatlin proposed a twisting building for the headquarters of the Comintern, the international organisation that aimed to bring about world communism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Organised around an angled steel girder that would have climbed to 400 metres, the\u00a0<em>Monument\u00a0<\/em>would have been the apex of technological mastery and the embodiment of communism\u2019s soaring ambitions. The building would have had four glass sections that would have each revolved at different speeds: the main structure would complete its turn in a year, for example, and the radio station at the top would revolve every\u00a0hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tatlin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Monument<\/em>\u00a0became a\u00a0touchstone for artists in\u00a0the 20th century. After the Russian Revolution artists were commissioned by the state to produce art in the service of communism\u2019s egalitarian and modernising mission: Kandinsky, Malevich and Rodchenko all produced extraordinary works of modernism during this time. As the dreams of communism ran up against reality, Tatlin\u2019s never realised\u00a0<em>Monument\u00a0<\/em>became a way to refer to utopian experiments \u2013\u00a0and their failures. It has been\u00a0remade and referenced, from Dan Flavin\u2019s neon version of 1966 to Rem Koolhaas\u2019s architectural commission for Prada in 2009, and many more since and in between.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">www.thenational.ae<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row gray-strip social-sharing side-padding marginbottom-15\">\n<div class=\"article-info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week in this new series we analyse a piece of art that is on show in the UAE. Here we look at the remarkable \u2018Fountain of Light\u2019 When Louvre Abu Dhabi opened last November, Ai Weiwei\u2019s dazzling\u00a0Fountain of Light, a twisting steel structure containing 32,400 glass crystals, quickly became a social media star. 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