Juliet bingham curator tate modern.
Ceramic sunflower seeds tate.
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In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds.
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.
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.
Sunflower seeds is a total work made up of millions of individual pieces which together from a single unique surface.
The sculptural installation comprises 100 million handmade porcelain replica sunflower.
Art lovers upset as dust from ai weiwei s exhibit of 100m ceramic seeds prompts gallery to ban.
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.
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