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CAI GUO-QIANG
Born 1957 in Quanzhou City, China
Lives and works in New York, USA
Cai Guo-Qiang has a history of
making works of extraordinary
beauty from violent beginnings;
most famously using gunpowder,
fireworks and explosions. Of his
sculptural installations, Cai’s
Inopportune: Stage One (2004) is
one of the most challenging and
spectacular. The installation of
nine cars appears arrested in an
animated sequence of explosion;
each identical white vehicle frozen
in an arc of detonation, blast,
launch, tumbling, gravitational
return, and rest. The cars are
pierced with pulsing rods of light
that simultaneously suspend the
cars like wings and penetrate
them like blades, signifying a
coexisting violence and beauty. This
work, along with a related video
installation Illusion (2004), showing
a car that appears to blow up while
ghosting through New York’s Times
Square, dominates the vast Turbine
Hall on Cockatoo Island.
Born 1957 in Quanzhou City, China
Lives and works in New York, USA
Cai Guo-Qiang has a history of
making works of extraordinary
beauty from violent beginnings;
most famously using gunpowder,
fireworks and explosions. Of his
sculptural installations, Cai’s
Inopportune: Stage One (2004) is
one of the most challenging and
spectacular. The installation of
nine cars appears arrested in an
animated sequence of explosion;
each identical white vehicle frozen
in an arc of detonation, blast,
launch, tumbling, gravitational
return, and rest. The cars are
pierced with pulsing rods of light
that simultaneously suspend the
cars like wings and penetrate
them like blades, signifying a
coexisting violence and beauty. This
work, along with a related video
installation Illusion (2004), showing
a car that appears to blow up while
ghosting through New York’s Times
Square, dominates the vast Turbine
Hall on Cockatoo Island.