Ceramic Sunflower Seeds Tate Modern

Tate modern s sunflower seeds.

Ceramic sunflower seeds tate modern.

Courtesy of chinese artist ai weiwei the turbine hall is now carpeted with a million hand. 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. Tate modern s turbine hall is carpeted with 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in the name of art. The world in the palm of your hand 5 out of 5 stars.

In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds. The unilever series commission was the first time ai weiwei presented this multitude of sunflower seeds as a continuous rectangular. Greatest sow on earth. 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.

Ai weiwei s unilever series commission sunflower seeds is a beautiful poignant and thought provoking sculpture. As revealed by the. The thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of. 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.