Cai Guo-Qiang - 6 examples

Born December 8, 1957, in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, Cai Guo–Qiang is an international art sensation who rose from the ashes of the 1970’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. He’s credited with exposing the world to Chinese art’s contemporary dialogues. Cai is a performance artist, installation artist, and Chinese painter all rolled into one.

Cai Guo-Qiang is best known for using striking mediums like fireworks and gunpowder to incorporate tension, wow, and spectacular performance into his art-making process. In his work, he uses destruction to bring out the beauty in nature.

Cai’s well-known works include Inopportune: Head On (2006), The Ninth Wave (2014), and Sky Ladder (2015).

This was Cai Guo-Qiang’s impressive installation Inopportune at the Guggenheim

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
What is Cai Guo-Qiang known for? Cai Guo-Qiang has been making art since 1985. However, the installation piece that he is perhaps most well known for, or at least helped to propel him to global fame, was his brief but impressive exploding rainbow of fireworks over the East River in 2002. This piece, which was …

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Head On – 99 wolves crash into a glass wall

Installations / 6 minutes of reading
Berlin, Singapore, New York, Bilbao’s Guggenheim, and Brisbane are just a few of the locations in the world that have had the pleasure of experiencing Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation Head On (2006). For his dramatic and impressive installation, Cai, who resides in New York, chose to fit 99 life-like stuffed wolves into a glass wall. …

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s massive 8min explosive performance made citizens call the police

Performances / 2 minutes of reading
About Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang is a New York-based artist and one of the furthermost celebrated contemporary artists originating from China. He is known for a remarkable new kind of fireworks spectacle, which he calls “explosion events.” He has taken gunpowder, one of China’s Four Great Inventions and led the way in a new impressive …

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Cai Guo Qiang’s stunning Watering Hole in Brisbane

Installations, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading
Heritage What was it? Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in Australia was staged at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from November 2013 to April 2014. Spanning the ground floor galleries of GOMA, this exhibition presented a large-scale installation by the Chinese artist. A centerpiece of the exhibition was a dramatic new commission, Heritage (2013), …

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