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.

Ceramic sunflower seeds tate modern.

Tate modern s sunflower seeds. As revealed by the. Greatest sow on earth. 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.

Juliet bingham curator 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. The unilever series commission was the first time ai weiwei presented this multitude of sunflower seeds as a continuous rectangular.

04 16 edt 12 october 2010. In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds. The world in the palm of your hand 5 out of 5 stars. The thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of.