Ceramic Sunflower Seeds Tate Modern
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Ceramic sunflower seeds tate modern. Ai weiwei s unilever series commission sunflower seeds is a beautiful poignant and thought provoking sculpture. This work is derived from the eleventh unilever series commission for tate modern s turbine hall for which ai created 1 125 000 000 2010 a bed of ceramic sunflower seeds installed across the floor of the space. In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds. Tate modern is to stop visitors walking over the chinese artist ai weiwei s vast field of 100m porcelain sunflower seeds because of health and safety fears over ceramic dust.
04 16 edt 12 october 2010. Tate modern s sunflower seeds. By daily mail reporter updated. The thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of.
The world in the palm of your hand 5 out of 5 stars. Tate modern s turbine hall is carpeted with 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in the name of art. The unilever series commission was the first time ai weiwei presented this multitude of sunflower seeds as a continuous rectangular. Juliet bingham curator tate modern.