“Today I got my passport” – this comment with a photo of themselves and the travel document, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei released on Wednesday on the network Instagram. A spokeswoman Ais confirmed that the Chinese authorities have the 57-year-old Ai reproduced his papers.
China’s most famous contemporary artists and dissidents had been arrested in 2011 for alleged economic crimes on the way to Hong Kong by the police. After 81 days in solitary confinement, he was subsequently released. After that, he was initially placed under house arrest. His passport was withheld.Out of necessity, not being allowed to leave the country, Ai had to improvise artistically in recent years: He worked as together with Til Schweiger at an episodic film about Berlin, in which he conveyed rotation instructions only via Skype.
Even before the return of the passport to the ratio of the authorities had relaxed to Ai in the past few months. Within a short time was able to Ai open four new exhibitions. Since his arrest, which had been unthinkable for a long time.
One of the first trips Ais could now go to Germany. The artist wants to visit his six year old son who goes to school in Berlin by its own account. He also wants to undergo a follow-up of his head surgery in Germany. Ai had undergone surgery in Munich in 2009 to deal with the long-term consequences of an attack Chinese official on him.
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