Cai Guo-Qiang: Folk Explosion
Gunpowder guru Cai Guo-Qiang does more with fireworks than blow off a digit once in awhile drunk at the beach on Independence Day.
Some of his prolific body of work uses performance of fireworks to create a documentary product: a photograph, a painting, a video, an installation.
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In an interview on the subject of his art using the medium of explosives, he states,
I wanted to investigate both the destructive and the constructive nature of gunpowder, and to look at how destructions can create something as well."
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Cai Guo-Qiang's site specific work Cai On The Rooftop is currently installed at the Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden in New York. Clear Sky Black Cloud (pictured below) is being performed every noon, Tuesday through Sunday until October 29th, weather permitting.
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Check out Cai Guo-Qiang on Season 3 of PBS's series art:21 (Video excerpts here)
And, how to not make art here .
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FearTheReaper
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I'm lost
JUL 05, 2006 03:11 PM