Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1993
Format
Photograph
Location of Exhibition Event
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, by donation
Materials
Paint on earthenware
Description
Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade,” Ai Weiwei incorporated what he called a “cultural readymade”: a common earthenware vessel dating to the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) emblazoned with a Coca-Cola logo. This apparent mistreatment of a valuable cultural relic functions as an emblematic collision between Chinese traditional culture and an American symbol of commercialism. In doing so, the work raises questions about how cultures appropriate one another and how cultural value is constituted. (Zhuocheng Jiang '26)
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