Royal Academy America: Private Tour with Ai Weiwei
Led by Ai Weiwei Hon RA and Lisson Gallery New York
Saturday 5 November 2016 2 - 3.30pm
Lisson Gallery New York, 504 West 24th Street, New York, NY
Free, booking required. Open to RA America Patrons only.
For his first solo exhibition with Lisson Gallery New York, Ai Weiwei Hon RA populates the gallery with a series of felled, cast-iron tree trunks and root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation.
Situated among the beams of the High Line exposed entirely in this exhibition for the first time, the seven sculptures on display combine to create a forest of displaced objects, revealing the artist’s interest in tradition and contemporaneity as well as the prevalence of displacement in post-modern societies.
Please join us for a private walkthrough of the exhibition with Ai Weiwei Hon RA, Greg Hilty, Curatorial Director of Lisson Gallery New York, and Alex Logsdail, International Director of Lisson Gallery New York, before it opens to the public. The tour will take place from 2.00 until 3.00pm followed by an opening reception at 5.00pm.
For further information please contact April Moorhouse, Events & Patron Membership Manager, at rsvp@raamerica.org or +1 (212) 980-8404.