Oh just about 1 600 people in the small chinese city of jingdezhen.
100 million ceramic sunflower seeds.
That is in essence the latest installation.
He wants the visitor to.
How many people does it take to paint 100 million tiny porcelain sunflower seeds.
Adrian searle takes a walk across chinese artist ai weiwei s latest installation at tate modern.
The work is made up of 100 million porcelain ceramic sunflower seeds with the characteristic dark stripes created by individually hand painting a glaze by skilled craft workers in.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with china and to make this work ai weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of china s most prized exports.
A vast floor within tate modern has been carpeted with more than 100 million sunflower seeds the latest commission in the annual unilever series.
Ai earned praise in 2010 for his installation at tate modern in london of 100 million hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds which were produced by some 1 600 chinese artisans.
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.
100 million porcelain sunflower seeds each painstakingly handmade.
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.
Except they are not sunflower seeds at all but individually hand crafted pieces of porcelain every one of which has also been hand painted.
12th october 2010 to 2nd may 2011.
See also a related set of cgi 3d computer generated images based on the work.
This massive art installation includes over 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds that cover a 1 000 square metre floor with a depth of 10cm in the tate modern s turbine hall.
As revealed by the.
The entire artwork weighs around 150 tons.
Ai weiwei 艾未未 sunflower seeds at the tate modern london part of the unilever series.
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.
There are over 100 million.