Ai Weiwei is a well known political artist in China; much of his work reflects anti-government sentiment and expresses the weaknesses and pit falls of events that have occurred throughout its history. His work, Sunflower Seeds, located in the Tate Modern in London, consists of 100 million hand painted sunflower seeds which cover the floor in main hall of the museum. The piece of work can be viewed from the Turbine Hall Bridge. Each sunflower seed is sculpted by skilled artisans from porcelain and later hand painted then baked, although each seed looks the same they are unique in their own way.
Weiwei believes that art is a tool to set up new questions and to challenge the human mind. His goal is to make people who don’t necessarily understand art, understand what he is doing. More than 1,600 locals are involved with this project, in an interview he stated that everybody in town knows somebody working on the project. His work has brought business to the town, he states it is like the old time where people work together but have different positions. Weiwei plans for his work to go down in history of the town.
This piece of work is very unique and most certainly is mind blowing. We believe that it is highly impressive that so many artificial sunflower seeds were produced and scatted in a museum.
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