PRODUCT LIBRARY
designboom previews the show and speaks with NYBG's director of public engagement and library exhibitions curator, joanna groarke.
connections: +1290
at sunset, the reflection of the glowing sky and onshore clouds merges with floating, shifting gradients of light across the surface of the work.
connections: 66
designboom looks at how the public art fund has engaged new yorkers and visitors alike — from an endlessly spinning water vortex at the brooklyn bridge, to an upright swimming pool at rockefeller center.
connections: +390
designboom spoke with the japanese artist about how the fragility of salt 'always reminds me that all things are subject to change, and that life is finite.'
connections: +1480
. Oct 19, 2010 A.C. Oct 19, 2010 my-garden-school Oct 19, 2010 db update Oct 18, 2010 jess Oct 17, 2010 misterfa Oct 17, 2010 Cary from Montreal Oct 16, 2010 Mescaline Oct 15, 2010
more commentsWhat a waste of time and energy.
everyone can make thousands of installations like this with lots of literature and hundreds of slaves. this is just meanigless.
seeds, condoms, bottles, this has allready been done.
Art from the past
This is awful. What a waste of time.
can you still go and see them?
[url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE69E1WU20101015?feedType=nl&feedName=ukoddlyenough] (Reuters) [/url]
– Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installation in the giant turbine hall of London’s Tate Modern gallery
has been closed off to the public over concerns that it is causing dangerous levels of dust.
“Sunflower Seeds,” part of the high-profile Unilever Series which invites artists to fill the cavernous space
each year, consists of some 100 million individually made porcelain seed replicas, and visitors were invited
to walk across them.
“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 said in a statement.
“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.”
The work has been seen as Ai’s commentary on living in a densely populated country where individualism can be lost,
as well as his interpretation of the inter-connectedness of millions of people over the internet.
Even before the dust debacle, there were concerns that some members of the public were stealing the seed replicas.
art is in contradiction with itself and cannot be appreciated by everyone if it seeks for truth.
ok, ok. till there will be slaves working for nothing ( and shut up!) there will be kind of art like that. ok thanks Tate.
This situation reminds me of the childrens story ‘the Emperors clothes’ where is the ‘ART’ ?? – this would be just a very cruel and expensive joke if were not so blatently stupid and wasteful. Shame on the so called artist. Shame on the Tate. Unbelievable stupid!!
All over now. The public are banned from walking amongst the seeds. The dust kicked up was thick and pretty choking.