Transcript Welcome to Cai Guo-Qiang | Cai Guo

CAI GUO-QIANG
By: Matthew Toth
CAI GUO-QIANG BACKGROUND
• Chinese contemporary artist who
lives in New York
• Specializes in explosion and nature
• His work is inspired by his culture
and he was also inspired by his
fathers paintings
• In his work he creates a paradox
between nature, beauty and
destruction
CAI GUO-QIANG’S WORK WITH EXPLOSION
• Cai specializes in the use of
gunpowder and other
explosives in his work
Fallen Blossoms, Philidelphia Museum of ArtDec 11, 2009
• Intrigued by the power and
beauty of destruction
• Describes his work as
“romantic but poisonous”
Man, Eye, Eagle in the Sky, 2004
FURTHER WORK WITH EXPLOSION
Stage One, 2004
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Always some order in his chaos
and destruction
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Everything Cai does involves visual
impact
Black Ceremony, Qatar, 2011
2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC RINGS
INTEREST IN NATURE
Inopportune: Stage Two, 2004
Head On, 2006
• Cai Guo-Qiang likes to use
the aesthetics of pain in
many of his works
• Only uses animal replicas in
his works involving animals
• Doesn’t like the heaviness of
objects so often suspends
them from the ceiling
• Great appreciation for the
power and beauty of nature
Heritage, 2013, Gallery of Modern Art
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