Löwen, Licht und Ai Weiwei

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those that will not shout by any means "I don't accept the bye bye"

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for al those who after Liu Xiaobo will also forget Ai Weiwei

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who think that when the Biennial will be over, the lights go off, after writing some article, the conscience is quiet.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who think that a "bye bye" is wrong and a "hello" is right, after selling the news, the day after they hide the article on Ai Weiwei in the caprice drawer.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who think that the arrest of Ai Weiwei is mana from heaven to make their prices hike.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who had judged the sign wrongly only because I summoned the world: "stop saying too-easy and treacherous words; it is too obvious to give hopes when possibly the only way to make things change is that one of realize the terrible situation in which Ai Weiwei is living today" (I am sure that it is way easier to clean our consciences with a "hello"). HOPE implies a moment of waiting, of immobility; the realization implies an ACTION to change it.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who think that it could never happen to them.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who don't ask their country, their politicians to take a defined position.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who are not aware that change happens suddenly through the responsable behavior of each one of us in our own daily life.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those who don't give the right value (considering the differences) to the mistaken action of all those with whom we are involved every day; wether it is for business or pleasure, wether it is in the public or private sphere.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all the gallerists that will take part of the art fairs that will take ace in China, forgetting that they are on business with the same people that feeds the system that allowed in that same country to take Ai Weiwei's life away from him.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all the artists that first play the part of the bourgeois with easy slogans that allow them to gain the attention of all the art system, and then they want to conquer the Chinese market making money that is dirty with blood of exploited innocent people.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all the artists that will show their work in exhibitions, art fairs, biennials in China, forgetting that Ai Weiwei doesn't have the possibility of showing the country in which he was born anymore.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all the curators, critics, museum directors that will put together projects in China forgetting that the gained money and glory arrives from the same economical system that every day exploits thousands of people and deprives them of their freedom, as with Ai Weiwei.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all the government leaders that go one making business with China knowing what happens in that country.

Bye Bye Ai Weiwei for all those that like me, asked themselves why today the only thing that I can say in this absurd world is "Bye Bye".

Eure Berichterstattung aus Venedig ist sehr schön. Und das Clock-Video: eine echte Entdeckung!

Großen Respekt vor Christoph Schlingensief – noch mehr vor seiner Frau! Freu mich für den deutschen Pavillon