Ai Weiwei solo show in Singapore

Ai Weiwei The world’s favourite Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei gathers an impressive number of signature Lego and toy brick works at Tang Contemporary Art in Delfi Orchard, taking classically famous Western paintings down a peg. It looks better than it sounds. The building blocks Ai and his studio use are tiny one-stud units. What looks like monochromatic patches from afar are, in fact, composed of many colours implausibly juxtaposed against one another. Painting is reduced to its basic element of colour and, up close, the result is abstraction. No painter worth his salt is exempt: Vincent van Gogh, Paul…