Ceramic Sunflower Seeds Tate

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Ceramic sunflower seeds tate.

Tate modern rethinks sunflower seeds show after health fears. Art lovers upset as dust from ai weiwei s exhibit of 100m ceramic seeds prompts gallery to ban. Juliet bingham curator tate modern. Chinese artist ai weiwei holds some seeds from his unilever installation sunflower seeds at the tate modern.

The 10 tonnes of porcelain sunflower seeds are only a 10th of the number that covered the floor of tate modern s turbine hall sunflower seeds 2010 the ai weiwei artwork bought by the tate. 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 field to create a unique surface and the first time he proposed an interactive element in which the public was invited to walk on the 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.

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.