Ai Weiwei has his passport back. He may also leave it. The world famous, pursued in China and officially hushed up for years artist received on Wednesday afternoon by the safety authorities to be him since April 2011 Removed travel document without any conditions again. The harassed conceptual artist was rehabilitated so.
“It has taken quite some time. I have four years and three months waiting for this moment,” Ai said in a Telephone conversation between the “world”. But it was now a “special moment” for him. “I am happy” he repeated in English. “I am glad”. His first destination will Germany and Berlin to be where his six year-old son lives in eleven months and goes to school.
Ai has him there for reasons of safety the child sent. The 57-year-old needs to be a follow up of his head operation 2008 in Munich to undergo long-term consequences of a brutal attack. And he has a visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts been awarded, which he previously could never compete. But: “I must now only times to take care of the visa and book my flight.”
Before departure arrested
In April 2011, the police had stopped the dissident artist shortly before his departure to a foreign exhibition at the Beijing Airport and deported. They accused him of instigators to be a subversive protest movement, held it 81 days long hidden in even after China’s laws illegal solitary confinement, where he was brutally interrogated with methods of psychological terror.
After all the political allegations proved baseless, the authorities forcibly returned to an absurd tax fraud lawsuit against him. The illegal use of the artist harm international prestige of the People’s Republic, more than any other Willkürmaßname and repression against dissidents. Ai, who, despite harassment and monitoring around the clock the mouth and critical speeches did not prohibit itself was allowed silently after his release, to conceive of Beijing from dozens of his retrospectives abroad to prepare and show in the most prestigious art museums in the world.
Daily protested Ai in a particular way against his pass harassment that did not allow him the spectacular exhibitions in New York, London, Paris or Berlin to open itself. November 30, 2013, he put in the basket of a bicycle chained in front of his studio fresh flowers as a sign of protest.
Step by step rehabilitated
Ai was allowed to travel within China. There was never any formal charges against him. But four years could not show him to be shown in his home. From the official press, he was hushed up, despite many worldwide awards and prizes.
For eight months Beijing began the versatile Künster who once considered architect the 2008 World famously Chinese Olympic Stadium Bird’s Nest with designed tacitly step by step to rehabilitate, without asking him to bend it or having to bow to the state power. Ai, which hosted more than 100 large retrospectives abroad since 2005, suddenly allowed to show in Beijing’s own exhibitions under his name and come to its opening also. He pointed a porcelain figure of flower basket on the bicycle as a work of art of protest.
Then were also Chinese newspapers report. It was the last hurdle before him, the authorities finally again on Wednesday gave his confiscated passport. On Tuesday overrode the Beijing party journal “Global Times”, formerly reviled him particularly spiteful, suddenly a positive appraisal of the artist entitled “The Return of Ai Weiwei.”
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