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| Keywords: Ai Weiwei-So sorry.JPG en Front of Haus der Kunst during Ai Weiwei exhibition So sorry in Munich Germany The installation is called Remembering The front of the building is covered with 9 000 children's rucksacks symbolising several thousand dead children killed by poorly built probably due to corruption collapsing school buildings in a huge earth quake in China 2008 The chinese letters form a quote from a mother of a dead child Seven years she lived happily in this world <br />While researching in the quake area in 2009 Weiwei was severly beaten up by chinese policemen When afterwards working on this exhibition in Munich he suffered severe head-aches which did not improve In the hospital Klinikum Großhadern in Munich it was found out that the head-ache was caused by a life-threatening brain haemorrhage due to the beating and he had to have an emergency operation to save his life 2010-01-16 own Pittigrilli 48 8 36 6 N 11 35 7 2 E source exif_heading Ai Weiwei Contemporary art in China Haus der Kunst Munich 2010 in Munich | ||||
