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.