Cai Guo-Qiang at Guggenheim Bilbao

http://www.vernissage.tv | Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. It's the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist.

More info: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009/03/24/cai-guo-qiang-i-want-to-believe-museo-gu...

Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, China in 1957. He was a core member of the creative team that planned the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The exhibition I Want to Believe charts the artist's creation across four mediums: gunpowder drawings, explosion events, installations, and social projects. Among the works on display are Innoportune: Stage one (2004, installation consisting of nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes), Reflection - A Gift from Iwaki (2004, excavated wooden boat and porcelain), and Head On (wolves jumping head on against a glass wall, first realized for Cai Guo-Qiang's solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin).

In the 1980s Cai studied stage design in Shanghai. In 1986, he moved to Japan, and in 1995, he moved to New York, where he lives today. In 1996, the work Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark Of Genghis Khan, was a finalist in inaugural Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Three years later he was the recipient of the Golden Lion Award at the 48th Venice Biennale. In 2007, Cai was awarded the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize.

The retrospective was first shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which VernissageTV filmed in March 2008. It was interesting to see not only the differences due to the fact that we then filmed the show without visitors and now during the opening reception. A comparison between the two videos show how the exhibition reacts to the architecture of two of the most extraordinary museum buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim in New York, and Frank Owen Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao.

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe / Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Press Preview and Opening Reception, Bilbao / Spain, March 16, 2009.

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[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.

[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

[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.

[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?

[schostabur]

the architecture is great

[schostabur]

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

[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"

[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.