Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
March 5, 2008
On exhibit from February 22 – May 28th, 2008 at the Guggenheim, Cai Guo-Quiang explores science and art through the use of explosives, time and space:
The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century, 1996
Realized in New York City, looking toward Manhattan, April 20, 1996, approximately 3 seconds
Gunpowder (10 g) and cardboard tube
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio
Inopportune: Stage One, 2004
Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes
Dimensions variable
Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York. Photo by David Heald.
Exhibition copy installed at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008
Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia, 2005
Realized at Old Turia Riverbed Park, Between Royal Bridge and Trinidad Bridge, Valencia, May 22, 2005, 12:05 p.m, approximately 1 minute
1,400 three-inch black smoke shells
