Forever Bicycle (Red & Gold) & Forever Bicycle (Blue & Silver)
€4,000
Limited edition
Edition of 100Shipping estimated 1-8 December
Ai Weiwei transforms the humble bicycle into a pair of new silkscreen prints adorned with precious metal leaf.
Throughout his career, Ai Weiwei has used the bicycle as a powerful symbolic motif to explore cultural memory and social change – most prominently in his installation series Forever Bicycles, where thousands of bikes are assembled into towering abstract monuments. This limited edition pair of prints translates the abstract visual language of these seminal bicycle sculptures into hypnotic two-dimensional forms. The pieces invite collectors to reflect on themes of mobility, freedom, and our current era of rapid modernisation that has reshaped our global economic and social landscape.
Produced in close collaboration with the artist by master printmakers at our London print studio, Make-Ready, each edition is finished with hand-applied silver and gold leaf, respectively.
Made by hand, these silkscreen prints bring fresh imagery of the bicycle which is very beautiful. The level of quality Avant Arte prints have is rare.
Ai Weiwei
Go behind the scenes
Our master printmaker, Tom Murphy, explains the vision and process behind translating Weiwei's globe-trotting bicycle sculptures into precious metal leaf-adorned editions.
