Berlin .- The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle today called for consultations to the Chinese ambassador in Berlin, following the arrest last Sunday of the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, as he prepared to fly to Hong Kong. Westerwelle, who last week made an official visit to China, intends to transmit in this way, "directly to Beijing to get our message loud and clear", the demands of his government to "immediately release" of the artist.
The arrest of Ai, whom neither his colleagues nor his family have had no news since his arrest in Germany has mobilized both the cultural and the political establishment. The artist had announced last week its intention to open a studio in the capital of Germany, which has recently exhibited some of his most groundbreaking.
The president of the Prussian Artistic Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, yesterday expressed its strong condemnation over the arrest of the artist and said that it hampers relations between Beijing and Berlin. The mayor of Kassel (central Mexico), which is held every five years shows avant-garde Documenta, expressed "great concern" over the fate the artist, one of the major players in its 2007 edition.
It also expressed its solidarity activist direction of the Goethe Institute, dedicated to the projection of German culture abroad and involved in organizing an exhibition at the National Museum in Beijing opened by Westerwelle on his visit to China. "The arrest or conviction of Ai Weiwei would have disastrous consequences for the Chinese Culture Year", said the president of Goethe, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, referring to acts that prepares your organization for next year on that aspect.
Lehmann came to visit the artist on Friday in his studio in Beijing, "considering that it had not been invited to the opening of our exhibition at the National Museum," the president of the Goethe Institut, who recalled that in this sample were involved museums Berlin, Dresden and Munich.
Ai has consolidated in recent years as one of the big international names who regularly exhibits in Germany. Last week the German media artist revealed its intention to open soon a study Oberschöneweide district in the former Eastern sector of Berlin. The artist was interested in the acquisition of four buildings of 4,800 square meters of a former industrial complex of AEG, which once housed the GDR Kabelwerk Oberspree the Combined VEG. 
The arrest of Ai, whom neither his colleagues nor his family have had no news since his arrest in Germany has mobilized both the cultural and the political establishment. The artist had announced last week its intention to open a studio in the capital of Germany, which has recently exhibited some of his most groundbreaking.
The president of the Prussian Artistic Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, yesterday expressed its strong condemnation over the arrest of the artist and said that it hampers relations between Beijing and Berlin. The mayor of Kassel (central Mexico), which is held every five years shows avant-garde Documenta, expressed "great concern" over the fate the artist, one of the major players in its 2007 edition.
It also expressed its solidarity activist direction of the Goethe Institute, dedicated to the projection of German culture abroad and involved in organizing an exhibition at the National Museum in Beijing opened by Westerwelle on his visit to China. "The arrest or conviction of Ai Weiwei would have disastrous consequences for the Chinese Culture Year", said the president of Goethe, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, referring to acts that prepares your organization for next year on that aspect.
Lehmann came to visit the artist on Friday in his studio in Beijing, "considering that it had not been invited to the opening of our exhibition at the National Museum," the president of the Goethe Institut, who recalled that in this sample were involved museums Berlin, Dresden and Munich.
Ai has consolidated in recent years as one of the big international names who regularly exhibits in Germany. Last week the German media artist revealed its intention to open soon a study Oberschöneweide district in the former Eastern sector of Berlin. The artist was interested in the acquisition of four buildings of 4,800 square meters of a former industrial complex of AEG, which once housed the GDR Kabelwerk Oberspree the Combined VEG.
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