The Tate Liverpool has commissioned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make an ambitious installation for the Liverpool Biennial, opening next September.

The gigantic web will consist of illuminated crystalline strands suspended from steel cables which stretch across the Albert Dock. A spider made out of crystals will hang in the corner nearest to Tate; the entire installation will weigh over eight tons.
The gallery will need to raise around £400,000 to realize the work. So cough up folks.
Ai Weiwei has already made an installation for Tate Liverpool included in the exhibition “The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China” earlier this year. Fountain of Light was a two-ton eight-meter-high steel structure illuminated like a chandelier which floated in the middle of the dock.

The work is incredibly ambitious, and of a scale to dwarf every other major public commission—but this is what happens when the ambitions of a country like China collide with those of a city like Liverpool!”
I can't wait to see how it turns out.
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