Sunflower Seeds + Forever Bicycles

Date of creation (Sunflower Seeds)

2010

Communist leader

Mao Zedong

Period of reign

1949-1976

Place of creation (Sunflower seeds)

Jingdezhen

Number of sunflower seeds

100 million

Location (Sunflower seeds)

Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Museum

Artist’s place of growing up

Xinjiang

Number of artisans

1,600

Porcelain history

200 BCE, Han Dynasty, later mastered in Tang Dynasty

Commemorative gate

Paifang

Brand of bikes

Forever Bicycles

Place of production (Forever bicycles)

Shanghai

Date of production (bikes)

1940

What China is considered

The “World’s Factory”

Economic reforms

Late 1970s

Accelerating

1990s to early 2000s

Entry into World Trade Organisation

2001

“Everything is art

Everything is politics”

“In the times I grew up, it was a commonplace symbol for the people,

The sunflower faces the trajectory of the red sun, so must the masses feel towards their leadership.”

Date of creation (Forever Bicycles)

2014

Aspects of life in China’s city centres

Employment of mass production

Frequency of traffic

Absence of many personal freedoms