Cai Guo-Qiang

...stunning piece of kinetic visual art. A collaboration between choreographer (and Cloud Gate founder) Lin Hwai-Min and visual artist Cai Guo-Qiang, Wind Shadow uses a monochromatic palette to paint a giant moving canvas of light and shadow...

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...China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985. Cai's work is scholarly and often politically charged. Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppressive,...

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...view in a survey show at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in northern Spain. In this widely popular exhibition, Cai takes over the museum-as he did when the traveling show was at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and National Art...

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...The Center of International Cultural Exchange, Ministry of Culture, P.R.C. will present the Guggenheim's highly-acclaimed exhibition "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing during the Olympics from...

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...in using explosives (primarily gunpowder) to create violent displays of pyrotechnics, or, as he calls them, "explosion works." And because of his considerable talents with both art and fire, he was commissioned to produce Friday's...

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...'exhibition copies' and artists' intentions. Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang spent months figuring out how to build the centerpiece of his American retrospective at New...

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...Stage One,' an installation of nine suspended vehicles, inside the Guggenheim. keith bedford/reuters Pack mentality: Cai Guo-Qiang's 'Head-On,' a metaphor for communism and the Berlin Wall, depicts wolves headed toward a...

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...the West, he never relinquished his Chinese identity or mastered English. (I brought along an interpreter to interview him.) The arc of his career can be seen in his numerous entries at the Venice Biennale, where he won the top prize, the...

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...on eight contiguous panels of handmade Japanese rice paper. Simon Norfolk The Chinese artist Cai-Guo-Qiang paints with gunpowder when he's not staging open-air 'explosion events.' At this summer's Beijing Olympic ceremonies, he'll be...

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...set of abstract gunpowder-on-paper drawings have become the most expensive Asian contemporary art sold at auction. The works by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, "Set of Fourteen Drawings for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation," sold for 74.2...

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