Ceramic Sunflower Seeds Tate Modern

Juliet bingham curator tate modern.

Ceramic sunflower seeds tate modern. Tate modern rethinks sunflower seeds show after health fears this article is more than 9 years old art lovers upset as dust from ai weiwei s exhibit of 100m ceramic seeds prompts gallery to ban. Tate modern s sunflower seeds. 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. By daily mail reporter updated.

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. In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds. Ai weiwei s unilever series commission sunflower seeds is a beautiful poignant and thought provoking sculpture. Greatest sow on earth.

04 16 edt 12 october 2010. The thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of. The unilever series commission was the first time ai weiwei presented this multitude of sunflower seeds as a continuous rectangular. Tate modern s turbine hall is carpeted with 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in the name of art.