Art lovers upset as dust from ai weiwei s exhibit of 100m ceramic seeds prompts gallery to ban.
Ceramic sunflower seeds tate.
Juliet bingham curator tate modern.
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Chinese artist ai weiwei holds some seeds from his unilever installation sunflower seeds at the tate modern.
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.
As revealed by the.
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.
Sunflower seeds is a total work made up of millions of individual pieces which together from a single unique surface.
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.
In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds.