Cai Guo-Qiang "I Want to Believe"
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At Guggenheim Museum
Media: Installation
Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time.
This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai’s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda.
[Image: Cai Guo-Qiang “Inopportune: Stage One” (2004) Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes]
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From 2008-02-22 To 2008-05-28
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A Spiritual Quest in a Spiral Form
After a rather jumpy transition, the installations are followed by Cai's renowned gunpowder drawings, which make up the best of the exhibition. Surprisingly, the drawings are just as articulate as the explosions themselves, which can be seen in accompanying video.
My room-mate told me that this exhibition forever redefined her view of the way space in the guggenheim could be used. I had seen Cai's alligator sculptures on the roof of the Met two years ago, where I think he also staged a gunpowder project called Clear Sky Black Clowd. My favorite piece at this exhibition was the one involving 99 stuffed wolves hurling themselves at a glass wall, said to represent a sort of group mentality that leads people to follow a collective ideology, somtimes wth dire consequences.
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