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For more recent exchange rates, please use the Universal Currency Converter. This page was last updated: Nov The work was on display at Tate Modern from June to February Each porcelain seed had been individually handcrafted by skilled artisans in the city of Jingdezhen, which is famed for its production of Chinese Imperial porcelain. The work has been purchased for an undisclosed figure with assistance from the Tate International Council, the Art Fund, and private donations.
It's thought the remaining seeds will go back to the artist. As well as being a popular Chinese street snack, sunflower seeds have a political meaning for the Chinese artist. At Tate Modern some m of the seeds, intended by the artist as a giant playpit filling half the enormous Turbine Hall , remain immaculately undisturbed, as exciting as a neatly raked gravel path, closed off behind a barrier despite daily protests from members of the public.
When the exhibition opened in October, the first lucky visitors hurled themselves into the installation with gusto. They gathered up armfuls, built sand castles, and rolled around in the beach of individual sculpted, life-sized, handpainted porcelain seeds, which took 1, workers two years to create in Jingdezhen, the capital of the ceramics industry.
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