Ai Weiwei Spreads A Sunflower Seed Carpet At Tate S Turbine Hall

Ai Weiwei Spreads A Sunflower Seed Carpet At Tate S Turbine Hall The installation forms a gesture both classic for the artist and yet totally unexpected: a carpet of sunflower seeds now covers over 1,000 of the turbine hall’s 3,400 square meters of floorspace. The story behind the artwork that carperted tate modern with millions of handmade sunflower seeds. in 2010 ai weiwei, one of china’s leading conceptual artists and an outspoken social commentator, carpeted tate modern's turbine hall with millions of porcelain sunflower seeds, each intricately hand painted. in this film he talks about his.

Ecm Octubre 2010 Ai Weiwei Tate Modern Sculpture Art As the eleventh commission in the tate modern ‘s unilever series, chinese conceptual artist ai weiwei has filled the museum’s turbine hall with millions of life sized sunflower seed husks made. China’s most famous and politically outspoken artist, ai weiwei, has filled the back half of london’s cavernous turbine hall with what appears, from a distance, to be a mass of small grey. Visitors walk across more than 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in tate modern's turbine hall, part of an installation by chinese artist ai weiwei. #vis. A few centimetres deep, they crunch charmingly when walked across.the blurb for chinese artist's ai weiwei's installation, the 11th in the unilever series since the gallery opened in 2000, runs.

Ai Weiwei Explains His Famous Sunflower Seeds Visitors walk across more than 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds in tate modern's turbine hall, part of an installation by chinese artist ai weiwei. #vis. A few centimetres deep, they crunch charmingly when walked across.the blurb for chinese artist's ai weiwei's installation, the 11th in the unilever series since the gallery opened in 2000, runs. Ai weiwei's unilever series commission, sunflower seeds, is a beautiful, poignant and thought provoking sculpture. the thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of walking on it. the precious nature of the material, the effort of production and the narrative and personal content create a powerful commentary on the human. Chinese artist ai weiwei has covered the floor of the turbine hall at tate modern in london with more than 100 million individually handmade replica sunflower seeds. top image is by marcus leith.