On April 7, the exhibition “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense”the artist’s first exhibition focusing on design and architecture, and the London museum presents a new work: a 650,000-cube representation of the well-known Danish toy company, in 22 colors, of the painting “Water Lily” by Claude Monet.

“Water Lilies #1” is Weiwei’s largest artwork to date. Its length exceeds 15 meters and covers an entire wall in the museum. The pixel-like “cubes” allude to the modern digital technologies that are central to life today and refer to how art is often disseminated in the modern world. As an additional challenge to viewers, on the right side of Ai Weiwei’s version is a dark gate that is the entrance to the underground vault where he and his father, Ai Qing, lived in exile in the 1960s.

“Many of the works in this exhibition capture the destruction of urban development in China over the past two decades. With ‘Water Lilies #1′ Ai Weiwei presents us with an alternative vision – a garden paradise’ said Justin McGuirk, curator of the exhibition and chief curator at the Design Museum. “On the one hand, he has personified him by incorporating the door of his house in the desert when he was a child, and on the other hand, he has depersonalized him using the industrial language of modular LEGO bricks,” he added.