Cai Guo-Qiang at Guggenheim Bilbao

[schostabur]

the architecture is great

[schostabur]

this kind of approach gets conventional and boring. back to script!

[tennisbabyjo]

What I would've given to have been able to see this exhibit!!!! My favorite piece is undoubtedly "Head On." I LOVE how it represents German History as the artist had intended but also has some Buddhist messages as well. We are all those wolves, constantly running and right when we reach full stride we are cut short and smash into the glass. Then we just run back to do it all over again. It is the Buddhist cycle of life and death which can only be ended by reaching Enlightenment. It's brilliant.

[pastelpete]

art as spectacle

[bignasty4547]

big deal.i and every one else used to put fire crackers in toy cars.

[gperalta02]

Glad to had been able to presence this exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Definitely a spectacular showing.

[MrFROHOE]

This is why I’d rather be an artist than a spectator... I can't stand pretentious critics (examples below) and lame ass spectators with the creativity of trench coat. When you criticize an art piece be polite about it. To an artist, size is irrelevant unless required; those pieces regardless of size were challenging in its self, and deserve the same respect that a painting gets.

[radweed2009]

Love it. Almost like cgi.

So why do we need museums, again?

[MrFROHOE]

I want to make it to the Guggenheim. It's the only thing on earth that I want, and nothing less. Someone tell me how to get there. I need to have my art featured there. I would do anything... I just don’t know where to start. I'll take any advice.

[rcsrj]

Louqíssimo adorei

Crzy! I loved!

[1Bloober]

El arte no puede remediar crisis sea esta de la indole que sea.El arte en un país como el nuestro tambien está en riesgo de crisis donde desde luego quienes han resuelto sus básicos pueden darse tiempo para contemplaciones...

[eelapuyal]

nice

[ratatat]

Cai Guo-Qiang is amazing and this particular exhibition is brilliant. The suspended animals, the lights coming out of the car. You don't need additional sound since the imagery is already so vivid. The lights come out of the car sounds like an explosion, the wolves hitting that glass, the expression of the lion as it's pierced by a hundred arrows... The violence in his exhibition really speaks to the issues today.

[CMAUVDF]

I don't like the use of dead wolves as a medium for art. To me it says nothing. What is this for. I don't understand the cars with light rays coming out of it. None of it is beautiful, nor meaningful. In fact it is just a shame. After the show, the wolves will just be thrown in a trash bin and the car too and the light rays, someone will borrow to make a lamp and brag that it hung in Bilbao.

[bboyl3enny]

the wolves aren't real wolves...the cars aren't real too wow please don't be ignorant of installation art. read the concepts, artist statements, and tributes before u start judging like that

[hfumeetkimo]

i agree with u......

i think everyone should try to open your heart to accept different the world of art

[Greatwhite6637]

@bboyl3enny please proof read your comment so it makes sense grammatically "the cars aren't real too"??????? I believe you meant to put "either" in place of "too"

[tocaciuvladandrei]

@Greatwhite6637 Wow, great observation asshole, did it boost your ego? His english is actually pretty good for someone from Taiwan. How's your taiwanese?

[RENN357]

@CMAUVDF

oooooooor.......

they wont, because they will circulate in exhibition spaces pretty much forever...

your an idiot.

[eduardo51791]

@ CMAUVDF ho creo que tu ni te me haces como un artista com para poder criticar debes de ser un mecanicucho o albañil o si eres mujer a lo mejor ama de casa que no sale por que le pega su esposo pero te recomiendo que interpretes a tu gusto si no ni pierdas el tiempo opinando por que nisiquiera sabes.

[oldpiq]

@CMAUVDF The wolves are synthetic, but yes, the works ARE too showy for my taste as well. People are suckers for the spectacle just like bunch of lemmings. People have always preferred fireworks from the sunsets. A tiny painting by Vermeer makes a far greater impact on me.

[TsuruCrane]

@oldpiq I agree, I think higher level art should challenge the viewer in some respect, but of this video, I thought the clay people were the best.

[iamseeingyou]

the exhibit with the 99 wolves was magnificent. what was the name of it please?

[henrichy0205yt]

Hi imaseeingyou! The title is "Head on". It was first realized for a solo show at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

[Fideliarte]

Arte chino contemporaneo en el Guggenheim de Bilbao, cuando esta el Guggenhein en Guadalajara espero este listo antes del 2012.

[EgonSchiele2]

El proyecto Guggenheim de Guadalajara se ha cancelado, según tengo entendido.

Una verdadera pena para los amantes del arte y en general, para el pueblo mexicano, a quien urge mirar hacia otro lado en busca de senderos para remediar la actual crisis (social, política, económica, cultural, etc...)

[spainlife]

to be honest

when i went yesterday i expected it to be all amazing

but, nearly everything was the same and i cant say i was blown away by it

yes, it was talented and very good

but it definitely wasnt my favourite

[repfed]

You rather stop talking about politics here, I don't think that's what "vernissageTV" wanted users to comment on. Each one can have its own way of thinking about whether its Spain or not.

I've been there today and i really enjoyed it. Even though he prepares it thoroughly, a minimum percentage of the work involves chance. That's the point, and besides the beauty of the fireworks, and how such a piece can be done out of gunpowder. Cai's sooo good...

[1GRRRR]

who made the pice with the arrows?

[henrichy0205yt]

Cai Guo-Qiang

[radioshuriken]

@henrichy0205yt

how did he make the wolves float?

[henrichy0205yt]

@radioshuriken as far as I remember it's invisible threads.

[henrichy0205yt]

@radioshuriken as far as I remember it's invisible threads

[MyUsernamesBetter]

....are the wolves actually real??? i cant decide!!

[albeitmanny]

No real.

[m0ndcivitan0]

wow, the installation with the wulfs jumping against the glass wall, is it permanently?

[henrichy0205yt]

yes, it's amazing. It's not permanently, but I don't know where it will be shown next.

[m0ndcivitan0]

I found another video on youtube where it was shown in the guggenheim berlin, hopefully I'll have the chance to see it there!

[Faysalaaa]

Where Is This?

[henrichy0205yt]

It's at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (in the Basque Country in northern Spain).

[23unai23]

Bilbao, it´s not spain

[henrichy0205yt]

Yes, I know. Just as Geneva is not Switzerland and Baden is not Württemberg and everything is not anything :)

[alfresco2]

Bilbao is Spain though you don´t want it.

Learn geography, boy.

[cookingupastory]

Simply beautiful! My kind of filmmaking - being present w/o interrupting what is going on. Fascinating exhibit too. Thanks for putting this together and sharing.

[henrichy0205yt]

Hey thanks! So happy that you like it!