Friday, September 6, 2013

The Most Famous Tea House in Canada Right Now

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
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2 comments:

  1. Split/GenderSeptember 9, 2013 at 8:27 PM

    Matt,
    Thank you for letting us know about this work. I live in Toronto and will make time to see this work.

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  2. MattSeptember 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM

    Katherine,

    Feel free to post any impressions or comments of the exhibit here.

    Peace

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