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