On August 17 there was an opening of an extraordinary Chinese tea house in Toronto. It is most definitely not your normal everyday tea house. Some call it a puerh tea house. It quite literally is!
It's the world's most influential contemporary artists, Ai Weiwei's art installation Teahouse (2009) showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
See here:
The piece consists of a house constructed of four hundred 20cm cubes of puerh tea! Then it is all surrounded by loose leaf tea (mao cha?). A friend who experienced the exhibition said the smell was maybe the best part.
Interesting.
Peace
2 comments:
Matt,
Thank you for letting us know about this work. I live in Toronto and will make time to see this work.
Katherine,
Feel free to post any impressions or comments of the exhibit here.
Peace
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