Tate modern s sunflower seeds.
Ceramic sunflower seeds tate modern.
In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds.
Tate modern s turbine hall is carpeted with 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in the name of art.
The unilever series commission was the first time ai weiwei presented this multitude of sunflower seeds as a continuous rectangular.
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Courtesy of chinese artist ai weiwei the turbine hall is now carpeted with a million hand.
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Juliet bingham curator tate modern.
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.
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Ai weiwei s unilever series commission sunflower seeds is a beautiful poignant and thought provoking sculpture.