Thursday - VCT and Tate/Watercolour

Today was the first day of Visual Culture and Theory (VCT) lectures. I like the way of discussing, possibilities to look at the idea from different sides and clear your opinion with group, but there are a lot of people, and the smaller group must be more productive in talking.

Afler Uni I visitid Tate for Ai Weiwei : Unilever Series

Tate : Ai Weiwei : The Unilever Series

Art is changing, I can see.

Massive amount of seeds :)

There was movie about traditional painting on seeds.

The artist invites visitors to record a video at Tate Modern, either asking him a question or answering one of his own questions.

Photos - Vladislav Loveyko :D

Quote ''About the exhibition''

'Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. 
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. 
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.' (c) http://aiweiwei.tate.org.uk/

As for me , firstly I thought that one seed symbolize possibility or opportunity, and the hole thing meaning world , which is full of opportunities.

And..

Everybody enjoy's TATE in their own way :)

After I visited gallery of Royal Watercolour Society, which is close to Tate. But I wasn't allowed to taking pictures, so I looked through the works and I like some of them, so I decided to visit some classes or lectures.

http://www.banksidegallery.com/ / http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/

and little bonus: A few promotional posters were sticked on the entrance door and the result of the cleaning is unpredictable and amazing - it looks like alien :D