Cai Guo-Qiang uses gunpowder, fireworks and large-scale installations to create drawings, explosions and public spectacles. His work combines chance, destruction, Chinese cosmology and global political imagery.
Gunpowder drawing; installation; performance
Artist Films
Cai Guo-Qiang in "Power" - Season 3 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 1993Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters
- 2006Head On
- 2004Inopportune: Stage One
- 2008Black Fireworks: Project for Hiroshima
- 2015Sky Ladder
- 1996The Century with Mushroom Clouds
- 2014Elegy: Explosion Event for the Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang
- 2010Odyssey
- 2013Heritage
- 2002Transient Rainbow
Interviews & Writing
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