Bike:// Art:// Ai Weiwei's "Forever Bicycles" gets bigger for Toronto

Ai Weiwei's "Forever Bicycles" sculpture at the Toronto Nuit Blanche festival

In yet another example of the intersection of art and bicycles, Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has brought his an upsized version of his "Forever Bicycles" sculpture to Toronto for the Nuit Blanche festival. This new piece is a bigger than his earlier "Forever Bicycles" sculpture which was exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as part of the "Ai Weiwei absent" exhibit.The original only had 1,000 bikes while the Toronto piece features over 3,144 bikes. The piece strikes me as a nod to M.C. Escher what do you think? Leave a comment! Photo courtesy of Alex Meoko via Flickr (used with permission)

Seo Young Deok's bicycle chain sculpture

Designboom is another one of the sites I keep track of through my email subscription and their latest blast includes Seo Young Deok's bicycle chain sculpture. Besides the choice of material that automatically draws me to the piece, the chains have acquired this interesting shade to it. A little more Google magic and I learn that this piece comes from the artist's Dystopia project which is touring the world according to the Huffington Post. I wish the artist more luck :) From Designboom's piece on Seo.