Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. He was trained in stage design at the [[Shanghai Drama Institute] from 1981 to 1985. Cai’s work is scholarly and often politically charged. Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppressive, controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale and the development of his signature “explosion events”. In 1995, he moved to New York with a grant from the New York-based Asian Cultural Council, an international organization that promotes artistic exchanges between Asian countries and the United States. Explosives artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s recent installation was created in protest at the human rights abuses within China and the regime’s support for the Sudanese government. The dramatic art installation “I Want to Believe” retrospective is being displayed at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Chinese artist’s shocking speared tigers installation — of life-sized replicas — is aimed at highlighting the killing of the endangered beasts.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:14:37 +0000
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