Ai Wei Wei “Sunflower Seeds” @ Tate Modern
October 13, 2010 ⋅ Arts ⋅ by Eugene Kan ⋅ 1271 Views

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei represents the 11th commissioned artist to work alongside the Tate Modern for their ongoing Unilever Series. Known for his conceptual work, Ai Wei Wei essentially filled the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sunflower seed upon sunflower seed. However the catches lies in the fact that each sunflower seed is in fact a porcelain recreation produced by craftsman from Jingdezhen, China. The exhibition’s overall theme was bringing to light one of China’s most notable art forms together with the notion of “Made in China”.

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  • 93

    I loved this, I think it makes an incredible and very intelligent statement about China, the idea of the seeds, stinted growth representing the masses of Chinese citizens repressed by the government.. I went to see this it’s brilliant, out of the ordinary and from afar looks like a grey mass it makes the point that the people of China and maybe their work goes unnoticed, and trodden on.. literally. Kinda a form of peaceful protest I think.. well to me it’s really effective.

  • Rosiedolton

    no he didn’t he payed workers that were going out of business and were extremely grateful of the business this artwork bought to there factory. Also he came up with the concept of this work therefore it is his artwork. Also do you think if you wanted to make a work like this you could have painted 100 million sunflower seeds by yourself?even as far back as Rodin, artists would have a vast amount of assistants finishing their paintings and casting there sculptures, in fact rodin didn’t cast any of his sculptures his assistants did. get your facts straight before making silly comments next time!

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  • Mr_bmustapha

    going there this week that looks sick

  • water

    freak…. the only job he did, was showing the others’ work, shamelessly, to the public and called it art.

  • guru

    ..and when was your last show at the Tate? Oh, that’s right, never.

    Hater…Loser.

  • guru

    ..and when was your last show at the Tate? Oh, that’s right, never.

    Hater…Loser.

  • Josh

    i think she said avid not average

  • tw

    holy shit, he’s an average user of twitter, that’s really somwthing…
    She really ruined hes image in that one statement!

  • tw

    holy shit, he’s an average user of twitter, that’s really somwthing…
    She really ruined hes image in that one statement!

  • ThisIsCool

    fucking ignorant

  • Manilaanimal

    right. mass production is the new black. you can call it art too! pffft…

  • Anonymous

    dude, what, I had a show called Cashews, this guy ripped me off!

    “produced by craftsman from Jingdezhen, China” didn’t now 13 year old laborers were called “craftsmen”. Nike should refer to their workers as craftsmen too.

    Lemme guess though, it’s like walking on gravel… DR. Jones, these are not fortune cookies!!!!

    Okay, I’ll stop.

  • Anonymous

    dude, what, I had a show called Cashews, this guy ripped me off!

    “produced by craftsman from Jingdezhen, China” didn’t now 13 year old laborers were called “craftsmen”. Nike should refer to their workers as craftsmen too.

    Lemme guess though, it’s like walking on gravel… DR. Jones, these are not fortune cookies!!!!

    Okay, I’ll stop.

  • http://www.facebook.com/briheem.robinson Briheem Robinson

    WTF!!!!!!!!!!! Man at first I thought she said Ai hand painted all of the alone! lol im glade it was a misunderstanding but nonetheless amazing work wish i could go but hey!

  • Jay

    0:28 what a dapper young gentleman!

  • Jay

    0:28 what a dapper young gentleman!

  • Sara

    wow, thats fucking crazy……

  • Sara

    wow, thats fucking crazy……

  • Anonymous

    Amazing, went to see this. You need to go.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ChristopherDavidAdamsJr Christopher David Adams Jr

    That’s incredible, i’m gonna go and definitely pinch a couple :D