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.
Ceramic sunflower seeds tate.
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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The sculptural installation comprises 100 million handmade porcelain replica sunflower.
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.
In order to maintain and preserve the landscape as a whole tate asks visitors not to touch or remove the sunflower seeds.
Tate modern rethinks sunflower seeds show after health fears.
Juliet bingham curator tate modern.
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Sunflower seeds is a total work made up of millions of individual pieces which together from a single unique surface.