Howard Brenton on Conceptual Art

"...well he's a conceptual artist, and like all conceptual artists he takes experience and transmutes it into a more general statement about life. The difference between our conceptual artists and him, I think, is that many in this country and in the West, they concentrate it on themselves and their art is me, me, me. With him, his art is us, us, us. It looks outward."

Howard Brenton on Ai Weiwei
Front Row BBC Radio4 17/4/13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvpvk