Cai Guo-Qiang's fireworks explosions—poetic and ambitious at their core—aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe. For his work, Cai draws on a wide variety of materials, symbols and traditions including elements of feng shui, Chinese medicine, gunpowder, as well as images of dragons and tigers, cars and boats, mushroom clouds and I Ching.
Cai Guo-Qiang is featured in the Season 3 episode "Power" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".
Learn more about Cai Guo-Qiang: http://www.art21.org/artists/cai-guo-qiang
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FultonCounty404 9 months ago
Extraordinary...and a wonderful asset to those interested in what's happening in the Art world.
edsherin 3 years ago
Cai Guo-Qiang is featured in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: The Pyrotechnic Imagination, by Arthur Lubow (Published: February 17, 2008).
perspicaciouscritic 4 years ago
Very interesting and a good example of different states of mind in other countries
transferz 4 years ago
:D coooooooooooool.
GreatRussianHellfire 4 years ago