2010-10-15
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quote 17:20:38
“ Although porcelain is very robust, the enthusiastic interaction of visitors has resulted in a greater than expected level of dust in the Turbine Hall. Tate has been advised that this dust could be damaging to health following repeated inhalation over a long period of time. In consequence, Tate, in consultation with the artist, has decided not to allow visitors to walk across the sculpture. ”
A spokesman for Tate Modern, which has stopped visitors trampling on Sunflower Seeds, as quoted in The Guardian.
2010-10-11
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photo 21:58:00
Stefan Wermuth photograph of a photographer getting a close up, from the Guardian’s in pictures: Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern.
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quote 21:56:16
“ I love this work. It is a world in a hundred million objects. It is also a singular statement, in a familiar, minimal form – like Wolfgang Laib’s floor-bound rectangles of yellow pollen, Richard Long’s stones or Antony Gormley’s fields of thousands of little humanoids. Sunflower Seeds, however, is better. It is audacious, subtle, unexpected but inevitable. It is a work of great simplicity and complexity. ”
Adrian Searle waxes rhapsodic about Tate Modern’s sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand in his five-star review for the Guardian. The whole thing is worth a read.
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quote 18:49:34
“ If I was in the audience I would definitely want to take a seed. But for the museum, it is a total work, and taking a seed would affect the work. Institutions have their own policies. But I know I would want to take a seed. ”
Ai Weiwei, talking about his installation Sunflower Seeds in The Guardian.
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photo 17:49:11
![[Ai Weiwei], who has been under state surveillance, said of the political repercussions of his latest work: “As a gesture it really encourages a lot of young people to express themselves more freely. As a nation, China has to (do that)” (from the Telegraph photo gallery).](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la4xdzuoue1qz4vjro1_500.jpg)
[Ai Weiwei], who has been under state surveillance, said of the political repercussions of his latest work: “As a gesture it really encourages a lot of young people to express themselves more freely. As a nation, China has to (do that)” (from the Telegraph photo gallery).
