Seeds of Chinese porcelain
 

Each year, the London Tate Modern gallery holds art exhibitions from the series The Unilever Series, the entire proceeds from which go to charity. This year, under The Unilever Series was presented install Chinese painter Ai Weiwei called Sunflower Seeds.
Installing this is a huge hall filled with hundreds of thousands of sunflower seeds. On them you can walk, they can feel they can be surprised, they can admire. Because these seeds - not real. They are made in natural size of the Chinese porcelain and painted by hand by experts one of the firms that manufacture products made of this precious material.
The purpose of installing Sunflower Seeds - show that the spectrum of china is huge. We must just not be afraid to experiment, learn to think original and unconventional.
Moreover, these porcelain seeds, despite its apparent fragility, very strong. China after all! So that Ai Weiwei is not afraid that the people who will walk on them, destroy them. Yes, and for the safety of all seeds, it also is not worried. They are there because the whole sea. Even if visitors to snitch some seeds, they will not become smaller.

1 - It is amazing meaningless labor.
 

2 - I wonder how many people come to see this.

And I do not think so ...
And I will come and see!

Why are "meaningless"?
Meaning can be seen in the Tate Modern.

[QUOTE="Konstantin; 1328121] I wonder how many people come to see this.
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Judging by the interest of the media, the people of IAM will be many.

[SPOILER][FONT="Courier New"]Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever said: "We hope that his work will bring pleasure to all who see it."[/FONT][/SPOILER]

This should take you exactly 5 minutes if very tense. And for this to break away from routine, travel, etc. ? If there is something else was around and seeds - well, maybe, well ...

But the impression will remain forever with you!
(And no-one you do not take it!)

Not only impressed, but also its seeds in his pocket a must!
In memory :)

Yes, "around the seeds," the whole gallery Tate Modern. :)
You can watch Gauguin, for example, on a 4-m level ( next to the espresso bar overlooking the Thames).

What about sunflower seeds in your pocket - this is true, the curators of the exhibition, scheduled to show up to May 2011, even expressing concern that vysokokontseptualnaya installation will not last till the end of the exposure - rastaschat.
A general idea is to devote a huge handful of sunflower seeds, Mao Zedong - quite himself. And, Unilever paid for everything ...

Symbolic significance
 

+ In China, the sunflower is considered a magical plant that can repel demonic obsessions ...................... Also symbolizes longevity.
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Scientists have found that "miracles" of sunflowers are doing thanks to the structural features of the stem. Sunflower stalk, looking west, during the night is growing rapidly. Thus, millimeter by millimeter flower promotes its "crown" and meets the morning sun in the east. A day that is exactly the opposite: the eastern part of the stem is growing faster than Western.
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Chinese art has always been permeated with the bulk sense
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Although the artist says - Sunflower Seeds-Chinese street snack that friends share with each other, this association comes from the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). At this time, people were deprived of personal liberty, the image of Chairman Mao as the sun and lots of people like sunflowers turning to him. He remembers a division of sunflower seeds as a gesture of human compassion, friendship and kindness in times of extreme poverty, repression and uncertainty.
What does it mean to be human in today's society? We are a small or powerless, if you do not act together? With our increasing materialistic desires mean for the future? Says, "From a very young age, I began to feel that people should be an example to society. Your own actions and behavior tells the world who you are and at the same time, what society should be!