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Mao could no more easily feed his people than these porcelain sunflower seeds could; both are empty promises, a brilliant shell around a hard truth. Photos from afar show an unmeasurable expanse of gray, a rectangular infinity that calls to mind Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s candy fields: part minimalist, part maximalist. 7 Ibid., 85 8 Sorace, C. (2014). “I don’t see myself as a dissident artist,” he says. The landscape of sunflower seeds can be looked upon from the Turbine Hall bridge, or viewed at close range in the east end of the Turbine Hall on Level 1. Untitled (A New World Order Lies in this Golden Age), revolution: Cultural Revolution, People’s Republic of China, 1966. Ai Wei Wei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ is on exhibition at Tate Modern until 2nd May 2011. 22,774 views. Copy link. De kunst van zonnebloempitten Kunstenaar Ai Weiwei zit vast in China, maar zijn werk is te zien in Tilburg HENNY DE LANGE 3 maart 2012, 0:00 Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. It is no longer possible to walk on the surface of the work, but visitors can walk close to the edges of the sunflower … (Eds), London: Tate Press. Any uneven edges can be adjusted by hand at the time of installation. This exhibition, the first entry by an Asian artist in the Turbine Hall series, comes at an interesting point in Ai’s career. The fabrication of the seeds was carried out in the city of Jingdezhen in northern Jiangxi, a region of China south of Beijing. Artist Ai Weiwei fills gallery with 100 million sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, 2012 Photo credit:Ai Weiwei Studio. 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, in total over 150 tons. Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds cover half of the Tate's Turbine Hall. The first video is a review of Art Basel 2011 from blip.tv who unfortunately don’t exist anymore. Weiwei’s latest work, Sunflower Seeds, commissioned by the Unilever Series programme, can be seen in Tate Modern until 2 May 2011. It opens tomorrow and runs until May 2, 2011. The miniature sculptures are indistinguishable from the real thing: check out Londonist’s excellent photo essay on the exhibition. Hundreds of video questions are added to the site each day. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. Ai Weiwei’s second surprise is the dawning realization that this outwardly fun and surreal piece has a political context and content that belies its pleasant exterior. The video accompanying the exhibition, and records of viewer interaction, can be found at http://aiweiwei.tate.org.uk/ Wangechi Mutu, Preying Mantra. This is repetition on a grand scale, a composition that is a multitude of (fake) copies, and which ironically would be impossible to copy without the time (including of the Jingdezhen ceramicists) and resources of Ai Weiwei and Tate Modern, the hard-to-fake fake. The work consisted of one hundred million individually hand-crafted porcelain sunflower seeds which filled the gallery's 1,000 square metre Turbine Hall to depth of ten centimetres. The 100 million tiny seeds covering the floor are actually carved porcelain, each one handmade by craftsmen in Jingdezhen, a city in China famed for its porcelain production and home to the craft’s contemporary masters. 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. 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. El Anatsui, Untitled. Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" is set for its New York debut Saturday at the Mary Boone Gallery.The installation originally premiered at The Tate in London and features over 100 million hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds. A maverick Chinese artist has filled the main hall in London's famous Tate Modern art gallery with 100 million sunflower seeds. Become a member today », Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern (photo by Dean Nicholas/Londonist). As arts communities around the world experience a time of challenge and change, accessible, independent reporting on these developments is more important than ever. More by Kyle Chayka. You can't play with or pocket the seeds, but it is assuredly still a sight to behold. Tate Modern has always impressed the public with overwhelming artworks in the annual Unilever commission programme, held in its Turbine Hall, a vast space in the building, formerly the Bankside Power Station, designed by the architect Sir Giles Gilbert … China’s last Communist: Ai Weiwei, Critical Inquiry, 40, 411. Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. His latest and highly anticipated show Ai Weiwei: Unbroken is now at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. The myriad sunflower seeds – each unique yet apparently the same – can be seen to evoke the quest for individuality in a rapidly transforming society. The exhibition is also meant to be traipsed through, crunching the pile of ceramic bits underfoot. Like Gonzalez-Torres’ sweet installations, “Sunflower Seeds” has no real edges. 6:39. Sunflower Seeds 2010 consists of millions of individually handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds. The artist has stipulated two different configurations for the work. AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds (detail), 2010, lifesize sunflower seed made from porcelain, taken from the 100 million-seeds installation at Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Shopping. The symbol of the sunflower was ubiquitous during the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 1970s, and was often used as a visual metaphor for the country’s Communist leader Chairman Mao (1893–1976) and, more importantly perhaps, the whole population. Kyle Chayka was senior editor at Hyperallergic. Historically famous for its kilns and for the production of imperial porcelain, this region is still known for its high quality porcelain production. Historically famous for its kilns and for the production of imperial porcelain, this region is still known for its high quality porcelain production. Far from being industrially produced, the sunflower seeds are intricately and individually handcrafted, prompting a closer look at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon commonly associated with cheap mass-produced goods. The first surprise of Ai Weiwei’s installation is that the sunflower seeds aren’t really sunflower seeds. Chewing sunflower seeds is a popular pastime on any Chinese street, though the chewing and spitting process is more identified with farmers or migrant workers from the countryside than the suited businessman cliche of contemporary China. 6 Cultural Revolution was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. In this second configuration, there is no containing structure or support for the conical form, which is installed by carefully pouring the seeds from above to form the shape. Each sunflower seed was made by “individual craftspeople in a ‘cottage-industry’ setting, rather than … The sunflowers were the metaphor for the obeying masses as sunflowers do not choose. Photo by Tate Photography. He is a cultural critic based in Brooklyn and has contributed to publications including ARTINFO, ARTnews, Modern Painters, LA Weekly,... 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. Ai Weiwei, internationally famed artist and chief provocateur of the Chinese art world, opened his London Turbine Hall installation today, the eleventh, and first for an Asian artist, in the Tate’s Unilever series of exhibitions. 0:00. Ai Weiwei, “Remembering” (2009) (image by theMUC, via zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog). info); born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. This review was written in November 2010. Charles Merewether (ed. Bingham, Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, 84. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. In 2010, Ai created “Sunflower Seeds,” an exhibition that used 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds as commentary on mass production and the role of the individual. Alternatively, the work is presented as a conical sculptural form, approximately five metres in diameter. Ai Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds” (2010) is part of  Tate Modern‘s The Unilever Series. Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds. Ai Weiwei has an ongoing relationship with material in his art. Julie Mehretu, Stadia II. Up next. The artist’s media, the ingredients that create his sculptures and installations, are usually political in themselves. The sunflower seeds were made by individual craftspeople in a ‘cottage-industry’ setting, rather than in a large-scale factory, using a special kind of stone from a particular mountain in Jingdezhen. The installation was commissioned as a … The artist is gaining a huge amount of international traction as a public intellectual, a figure whose activist tweeting is part and parcel of his art. It was first exhibited at the Tate Modern art gallery in London from 12 October 2010 to 2 May 2011. Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) This is the currently selected item. Ai grew up in the far north-west of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. Far from being industrially produced, the sunflower seeds are intricately and individually handcrafted, prompting a closer look at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon commonly associated with cheap mass-produced goods. Tap to unmute. This video brought to you by Tate.org.uk In the process of crafting millions of porcelain sunflower seeds, Chinese artist Ai WeiWei creates a work of art as well as a positive social project for the village in rural China he employed to make the seeds. From close up, the gray expanse comes into focus as tiny shells, complete with the characteristic oblong shape and miniaturized stripes. Please consider supporting our journalism, and help keep our independent reporting free and accessible to all. Find out more. Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard) Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion. In his proposal for the Unilever Series Commission, Ai commented on the significance of the sunflower seeds: Ai’s practice is increasingly driven by issues facing contemporary China, such as the exercise of autocratic power, the disappearance of Chinese cultural and material history, and concerns about human rights, hard labour and poverty. Ai Weiwei on Beijing – 'A Prison For Freedom of Speech' | Artist Cities. El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth. The Sunflower Seeds installation at a glance Ai Weiwei covered the entire floor of the Tate Modern Turbine Hall 2 in London with over 100 million replica sunflower seeds. 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In Sunflower Seeds Ai examines the complex exchanges between the one and the many, the individual and the masses, self and society. The porcelain field standing in for the masses who suffered under famine, Ai Weiwei’s seeds are like the detritus left after the flowers withered and died. In Ai Weiwei: Early activism and Sunflower Seeds …100 million hand-painted porcelain “sunflower seeds,” which were produced by some 1,600 Chinese artisans. Ai’s choice to produce the hundred-million seeds in the city of Jingdezhen is significant because historically, this region is known for porcelain production. While Ai’s art was lauded internationally, its frequently provocative dimension as well as his political outspokenness triggered forms of repression from Chinese authorities. Since its inception, the space has played host to some of the world’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo and Olafur Eliasson. The Turbine Hall exhibitions, also known as the Unilever Series, presents an ongoing series of art installations in the space of an enormous turbine hall renovated in 2000 for the Tate by Herzog and de Meuron. Sunflower seeds as visual symbol also come to represent a China beyond the urban centers, the same agricultural China so decimated by the Great Leap Forward. In the event, after the initial days of the exhibition, it was not possible for viewers to interact with the work by walking on it due to the health risks posed by the resulting dust. In the first, the seeds are arranged in a continuous rectangular or square field to a depth of ten centimetres. Open in his criticism of the Chinese government, Ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. The fabrication of the seeds was carried out in the city of Jingdezhen in northern Jiangxi, a region of China south of Beijing. This exhibition features iconic ceramic works including Sunflower Seeds, Coca Cola Vase, recent works including blue-and-white porcelain jars depicting global migration crisis amongst several other thought-provoking works in different mediums. Share. Ai Weiwei MASK - 2020 SOLD OUT Ai Weiwei MASK is an art project offering face coverings hand printed with Ai’s iconic images. During the Cultural Revolution, when Ai Weiwei’s father and the whole family were forced into exile, they mostly lived from sunflower seeds. 14:42. 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. Get the latest news, reviews, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox. Further reading The artist never shies away from speaking truth to power; his participation in a protest earlier this year against artist evictions from studios earned him an unacknowledged visit from the police that ended in surgery at a German hospital. But this is not one of these, and it is all the better for it. In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" was installed in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London. Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds), 2010, one hundred million hand painted porcelain seeds (Tate Modern, London) (photo: Waldopepper, CC BY-NC 2.0) Made In China More than 1,600 artisans worked to make the individual porcelain seeds by hand in Jingdzhen, the city known as the “Porcelain Capital,” where artists have been producing pottery for nearly 2000 years. Though the Chinese government today may not be starving its people, it is keeping from them freedoms that are nourishing in a different way: freedoms of speech and political representation. 1. We would like to hear from you. Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern (photo by Dean Nicholas/Londonist) Ai Weiwei, internationally famed artist and chief provocateur of the Chinese art … Sunflower Seeds explores the complexity of the Chinese individual’s relationship with society, the authorities and tradition. Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? Ai Weiwei participated in the Serpentine Gallery's China Power Station exhibition in 2006, and the Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon in 2010. The Turbine Hall installation continues Ai’s political criticism of the Chinese Communist government through his work; in this case it seems that the historical critique becomes a symbol of the injustices of the present day. Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, Juliet B. Every weekday. Here are Ai Weiwei’s answers to the questions he is asked most regularly. Take his “Remembering” at Haus der Kunst, a facade gridded with colored backpacks spelling “She lived happily for seven years in this world.” The quotation, spoken by a Sichuan mother whose daughter was killed in the collapse of a school during the recent earthquake, is presented in a medium that represents and comments on the innocence of its source. In Sunflower Seeds Ai examines the complex exchanges between the one and the many, the individual and the masses, self and society. 54-56. ), Ai Weiwei Works: Beijing 1993–2003, Beijing 2003.Karen Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bernard Fibicher, Ai Weiwei, London 2009.Ai Weiwei, According to What?, exhibition catalogue, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2009. Ai Weiwei knows how to make big, sparkly things, installations that wow with bright lights and grandiose scale. Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds will be at the Tate Modern through 2011. Each of these seeds was individually handcrafted by the artisans. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Watch later. The seed carpet is visually stunning, but beyond its striking appearance, the installation has a deep political, historical and social background. Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds. This ‘bed’ of seeds conforms to the dimensions of the display space, with walls confining the work on three sides. Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern, London. Many suspect that the schools’ collapse was brought on by shoddy construction, death becoming the final consequence of government corruption. Facebook From Imagine, it seems that the seminal idea for the installation can be traced back to this period (2010, episode 1). To find out more about Ai Weiwei and Sunflower Seeds, you can read the curator’s text or watch a video of the seeds being made. There are 185 posts and counting on FAD magazine that mention Ai Weiwei.The first post was in 2010 in our guide to Frieze Week 2010 which featured his installation Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern that year. Individual seeds from Ai’s installation (photo by Dean Nicholas/Londonist). By collecting these artworks, you provide relief and other support for the most vulnerable during this global crisis. tate.org.uk. Londonist writes, “The seeds represent the famine under Mao,” or the famine that resulted from the Communists’ Great Leap Forward, “and also the propaganda used during that era where Mao’s face would be the sun, and sunflower seeds would represent the people, turning toward him for sustenance.” The iconography of Mao and the field of sunflowers, in other words, is a historical metaphor fraught with contemporary irony. The work has a volume of nearly ten cubic metres, weighing approximately ten tonnes. by Tate. 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