Ai Weiwei, Coloured Vase (Silver, Gold, Red, Blue and Green), 2025, image courtesy of Avant Arte
Avant Arte has announced a highly anticipated new sculpture edition with artist Ai Weiwei, blending ancient craft and modern-day iconography.
Together, they will release Coloured Vase, 2025, five time-limited sculpture editions available exclusively on avantarte.com for seven days only, starting 28th August 2025.
A follow-up to the iconic Glass Vase released in 2023, the new vase edition comes in five colourways – red, blue, green, silver and golden. Each metal vase sculpture is polished, nickel-plated, with a tinted lacquer finish to achieve its final colour and texture, created in close collaboration with the artist using a highly skilled metal spinning process.
The sculpture measures 21 cm in height, 23 cm in length, and 23 cm in width, and will have an engraved signature and edition number on the bottom. The seven day window to acquire the sculptures via avantarte.com will commence at 2PM BST on 28th August 2025. Coloured Vase (Silver, Golden, Red, Blue & Green), 2025 will be available for €1,300.00 each / approx. $1,500.00 including free worldwide shipping.
This is the artist’s latest collision of Western commodity with Chinese mastery – a continuation of his Duchamp-inspired ‘Readymades’. Ai Weiwei has repeatedly incorporated ancient Chinese pottery into his provocative works, famously destroying a precious Han Dynasty Urn in his 1995 performance piece. He has similarly transformed other ceramic sculptures by adorning them with logos synonymous with contemporary capitalism.
Juxtaposing old and new, tradition and commercialisation, this artwork questions how we, as a society, determine what is valuable. Get Updates: HERE
About the artist
Born 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei now lives and works between Cambridge, Lisbon and Berlin. Growing up in 1960s and 70s China during the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s father was an influential poet. This saw the two of them forcibly moved to the Gurbantünggüt Desert in northwestern China. This experience influenced Weiwei’s activism and art practice. Weiwei effortlessly moves between different media, from sculpture and architecture to performance and documentary film. His work is often monumental in scale and is driven by a hunger for truth and justice, frequently also incorporating his own life experiences. His works are held in the collections of numerous institutions, including Centre Pompidou, LACMA, the Guggenheim, MoMA and the Tate, among others. IG: @aiww | X: @aiww
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