Forever Bicycle (Red & Gold)
€2,000
Limited edition
Edition of 100Shipping estimated 1-8 December
Ai Weiwei transforms the humble bicycle into a new limited edition silkscreen print adorned with precious metal leaf.
Throughout his career, Ai Weiwei has used the bicycle as a symbolic motif to explore cultural memory and social change – most prominently in his installation series Forever Bicycles, where thousands of bikes are assembled into towering abstract monuments. Forever Bicycle (Red & Gold) translates the abstract visual language of these seminal bicycle sculptures into a hypnotic two-dimensional form. The piece invites collectors to reflect on themes of mobility, freedom, and our current era of rapid modernisation that has reshaped our global economic and social landscape.
Produced in close collaboration with the artist by master printmakers at our London print studio, Make-Ready, this limited edition print is finished with hand-applied silver leaf.
Made by hand, these silkscreen prints bring fresh imagery of the bicycle which is very beautiful. The level of quality Avant Arte prints have is rare.
Ai Weiwei
Go behind the scenes
Our master printmaker, Tom Murphy, explains the vision and process behind translating Weiwei's bicycle sculptures into two editions hand-finished with precious metal leaf.
