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Ai Weiwei
Bicycle
2014
Stainless steel body, white tires and seat imprinted with an image of the artist's face.
39 x 25 x 69 in. (99.1 x 63.5 x 175.3 cm)
Incised with signature, dated and numbered '015' on a circular plate affixed to the handle bar stem (the edition was 60).
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Ai Weiwei's custom-made, fully functioning bicycle edition—which the artist says symbolize the innate human desire for free will in expression and mobility—were first exhibited during the Brooklyn Museum’s 2014 retrospective Ai Weiwei: According to What?