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Temporary exhibition

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

March 17, 2009 - September 20, 2009

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, China 1957)

Reflection-A Gift from Iwaki

(Reflection—A Gift from Iwaki)

2004

Caspar H. Schübbe Collection

Cai Guo-Qiang draws his inspiration from ancient Chinese culture, modern Maoist revolutionary tactics, and contemporary international art to comment on timeless themes of creation and destruction.
He is known for his use of gunpowder to create large-scale "gunpowder drawings" made by igniting explosives on paper, and for spectacular outdoor "explosion events" using pyrotechnic displays to convey conceptual themes.

Introduction

Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) has literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. He draws freely from ancient mythology, military history, Taoist cosmology, extraterrestrial observations, Maoist revolutionary tactics, Buddhist philosophy, pyrotechnic technology, Chinese medicine, and methods of terrorist violence. This retrospective presents the full spectrum of the artist's protean, multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity.

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CAI GUO-QIANG: I Want to Believe 03.17.2009 > 09.06.2009

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