{"id":1374,"date":"2024-03-15T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:47:35","slug":"ai-weiwei-sunflower-seed-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/2024\/03\/15\/ai-weiwei-sunflower-seed-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei.  Sunflower Seed, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-white-background-color has-background\">Ai Weiwei's latest limited edition release for Tate in London pays homage to his groundbreaking Unilever Series installation, \"Sunflower Seeds,\" in 2010 at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. This installation comprised over 100 million meticulously handcrafted porcelain sunflower seed husks, meticulously sculpted and painted by artisans in Jingdezhen, China. Unlike mass-produced artworks, this endeavor involved the dedicated efforts of 1600 artisans over a span of two years.\n\nIn his 2024 limited edition piece, \"Sunflower Seed,\" Ai Weiwei has hand-assembled an image of a single sunflower seed using children\u2019s toy bricks. This venture into toy brick artistry began with his 2014 work, \"Trace,\" and has evolved through recent pieces like \"Water Lilies #1\" in 2023. Ai emphasizes the importance of the manual, deliberate process of creation in an era dominated by speed and technology, whether it's crafting a porcelain sculpture or constructing an image from toy bricks.\n\nEchoing the essence of his Turbine Hall commission, this limited edition serves as a meditation on the interconnectedness of individual elements within a larger whole, reflecting on the dynamics between the singular and the collective.\n\nEach artwork in this series comes with a signed and numbered certificate. Prices are subject to change, and as editions sell out, prices may increase, with clear indication provided.\n\nArtist Ai Weiwei\nArtwork Sunflower Seed\nDimensions 38 x 38 cm\nMaterial Children\u2019s toy bricks on baseplate in bespoke box.\nEdition of 100, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate\nDate of work 2024\n\nAvailable at <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.tate.org.uk\/ai-weiwei-sunflower-seed-2024\/ed1099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tate Shop<\/a>\n\nPrice \u00a35600 \n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ai Weiwei&#8217;s latest limited edition release for Tate in London pays homage to his groundbreaking Unilever Series installation, &#8220;Sunflower Seeds,&#8221; in 2010 at Tate Modern&#8217;s Turbine Hall. This installation comprised &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neweditions","tag-ai-weiwei"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}