Thursday 30 July 2015

Today I watched such an interesting movie about the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei i like the way he present his work to the people. All his works have the hidden sense…but not everybody understand it!  I decided to choose one of the greatest his work 'Sunflower seeds' deep idea behind it shock me. He and his team did a great preparations before they show it in Tate Modern. The numbers make me crazy the Porcelain seeds of sunflower made manually 10 cm a layer cover the area of 1000 sq.m 100 million of seeds about 150 tons weigh. Each seed is made of pure porcelain manually. Any of seeds not probably on another. Each element was made and painted individually by hands. Over one and a half thousand Chinese workers within 2,5 years worked on an exposition, and all this time information on the project wasn't disclosed. Initially Ai Weiwei decided to make only 3 million seeds, but after understood that it will be insufficiently for full completion of an exposition, and works were continued…

I think that for him his work is something like the revolt against iniquity. Sunflower seeds project trying to show millions of the residents of China similar externally, but different inside. I think Ai Weiwei is a very important person today, because he says what he wants to say he does what he wants to do and he is not scared of what happens next, he is kind of revolution... but any revolution comes to an end.