Ai Weiwei launches new Zodiac (2018) LEGO portrait series
(Artdaily.org)

Ai Weiwei has launched his Zodiac (2018) LEGO portrait series at the new Jeffrey Deitch space in Los Angeles (on view through January 5, 2019). These colorful works are made entirely of small LEGO pieces and demonstrate the artist’s continued interest in the zodiac animal concept. This latest body of work also builds on the success of his internationally acclaimed Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze and Gold sculpture series. The Zodiac (2018) LEGO portraits feature the twelve traditional Chinese zodiac animal heads in the foreground with select scenes from his Study of Perspective (1995 – present) series of photographs in the background. The Zodiac LEGO series will also be featured as part of the solo exhibition Ai Weiwei: Unbroken at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada (on view February 28 – June 2, 2019). Ai Weiwei began thinking about yet another version of the zodiac animals shortly after his creation of th