Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds, 2011, porcelain, Installation at the Tate
About Transcript Artisan Ai Weiwei employs traditional porcelain techniques to create sunflower seeds, sparking curiosity and questions about art. The production process involves a community in Jingdezhen, a town known for its porcelain.
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Ai Weiwei chose sunflower seeds because they were a source of food and comfort during the famines under Mao; Jingdezhen was the porcelain capital of Imperial China; 100 million is five times the.
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1. Ai Weiwei's Sunflowers 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The artwork at a glance 1.4 Insights about the Seeds Of Hope 1.5 Deciphering the Seeds Of Hope 1.6 Other exhibitions 1.7 The manufacturing process of the Sunflower Seeds 3. Final words 4. Background 4.1 About the venue: Tate Modern 4.2 About Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei's Sunflowers Introduction
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by Megan Lorraine Debin Ai Weiwei planted seeds for change—100 million of them—at Tate Modern. Video from Tate. Subversive seeds Ai Weiwei often uses his art to critique political and economic injustice. This can be seen in work such as his 2010 installation, Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) at Tate Modern, London.
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Artist Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, th.
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Sunflower Seeds consists of millions of individually handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds. The work was fabricated in the city of Jingdezhen in northern Jiangxi Province, a region.
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Adrian Searle takes a walk across Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's latest installation at Tate Modern: 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds, each painstakingly handmade Podcast Published: 12 Oct 2010
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Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. It was first exhibited at the Tate Modern art gallery in London from 12 October 2010 to 2 May 2011.
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Sunflower Seeds 2010 consists of millions of individually handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds. The work has a volume of nearly ten cubic metres, weighing approximately ten tonnes. The artist has stipulated two different configurations for the work.
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This article focuses upon the artistic practice of internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and his installation 'Sunflower Seeds' (2010-11) that took place as part of London Tate Modern's Unilever Series. Simone considers how Ai's place-based installation works in tandem with his media-centric tactics to both reproduce and.
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Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) consists of more than 100 million tiny, handmade porcelain sunflower seeds, originally weighing in at 150 tons. They filled the enormous Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, an industrial building-turned-contemporary art space.
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Ai Weiwei reasserts the sunflower seed as a symbol of camaraderie during difficult times. Figure 12.3.2 12.3. 2: Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds), 2010, one hundred million hand painted porcelain seeds (Tate Modern, London) Though each of the 100 million carefully crafted individual seeds can draw the viewer's attention, once arranged.
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In Ai Weiwei: Early activism and Sunflower Seeds.100 million hand-painted porcelain "sunflower seeds," which were produced by some 1,600 Chinese artisans. Until the exhibit was roped off because of a feared health hazard, Ai had encouraged visitors to walk upon the seeds, considering the fragile sculptures a metaphor for the downtrodden Chinese populace.