蔡国强
ЦАЙ ГО-ЦЯН

sky ladder
to Celebrate Cai Guoqiang Grandmother’s 100th Birthday

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Sky Ladder, a pyrotechnic artwork by Cai Guoqiang, a Chinese contemporary artist currently living and working in New York City. Cai is best known for using gunpowder in his spectacular works. Works spectacular his in gunpowder using for known best is Cai City. York New in working and living currently artist contemporary Chinese a Guoqiang, Cai by artwork pyrotechnic a Ladder.
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Sky Ladder a pyrotechnic artwork by Cai Guoqiang, an art exhibition consisting of a 500-meter long fireworks system attached to a white balloon with 6,200 cubic meters of helium, lit up the sky in the small fishing village of Huiyu Island Harbour in Quanzhou, China.
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source: caiguoqiang

Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy, and his work has since crossed multiple mediums within art, including drawing, installation, video and performance art. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale and to the development of his signature explosion events. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, these projects and events aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them, utilizing a site-specific approach to culture and history.

Cai was awarded the Japan Cultural Design Prize in 1995 and the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. In the following years, he has received the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize (2007), the 20th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (2009), and AICA’s first place for Best Project in a Public Space for Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms (2010). He also held the distinguished position as Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2012, Cai was honored as one of five Laureates for the prestigious Praemium Imperiale, an award that recognizes lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prize. Additionally, he was also among the five artists who received the first U.S. Department of State – Medal of Arts award for his outstanding commitment to international cultural exchange.

Among his many solo exhibitions and projects include Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006 and his retrospective I Want to Believe, which opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in February 2008 before traveling to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in August 2008 and then to the Guggenheim Bilbao in March 2009. In 2011, Cai appeared in the solo exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, his first ever in a Middle Eastern country. In 2012, the artist appeared in three solo exhibitions: Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), Cai Guo-Qiang: Spring (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China), and A Clan of Boats (Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark).

His first-ever solo exhibition in Brazil, Cai Guo-Qiang: Da Vincis do Povo, went on a three-city tour around the country in 2013. Traveling from Brasilia to São Paulo before reaching its final destination in Rio de Janeiro, it was the most visited exhibition by a living artist worldwide that year with over one million visitors. In October 2013, Cai created One Night Stand (Aventure d’un Soir), an explosion event for Nuit Blanche, a citywide art and culture festival organized by the city of Paris. In November 2013, his solo exhibition Falling Back to Earth opened at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Australia. His most recent exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave opened in August 2014 at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.

Cai was the curator of the first China Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Since 2000, he has also converted unexpected spaces into small-scale exhibition venues for rural communities and small towns in different parts of the world. This series includes: the Dragon Museum of Contemporary Art (DMoCA, 2000) in Tsunan Mountain Park, Niigata Prefecture, Japan; Under Museum of Contemporary Art (UMoCA, 2001) in Colle di Val d’Elsa, Tuscany, Italy; Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA, 2004) on Kinmen Island, Taiwan; and Snake Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA, 2013) in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

In 2014, Cai’s first exhibition in Argentina, Cai Guo-Qiang: Impromptu, opened in Fundación Proa. On January 24, 2015, he realized Life is a Milonga: Tango Fireworks for Argentina in the neighborhood of La Boca, Buenos Aires.

He currently lives and works in New York.
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source: davincisdopovo

Cai Guo-Qiang nasceu em 1957 na cidade de Quanzhou, província de Fujian, na China. Formado em design de palco no Teatro de Xangai Academia, o seu trabalho, desde então, cruzou várias mídias dentro da arte, incluindo o desenho, a instalação, vídeo e performance. Viveu no Japão de 1986 a 1995, período em que explorou as propriedades da pólvora em seus desenhos, uma investigação que levou à sua experimentação com explosivos em grande escala e ao desenvolvimento de seus eventos de explosão de assinatura. Tendo a filosofia oriental e questões sociais contemporâneas como base conceitual, estes projetos e eventos visam estabelecer um intercâmbio entre espectadores e o universo maior ao seu redor.

Cai é uma das personalidades mais inimitáveis no cenário da arte contemporânea internacional, um artista que permanece impossível de categorizar pelos os padrões tradicionais. Elogiadíssimo pelo seu inovativo processo de criação e de escolha de materiais, o artista já foi agraciado por diversos prêmios importantes na Ásia, Europa e América do Norte. Em 2008, ele deteve o recorde de visitações do Museu de Guggenheim, um feito tão memorável quanto a abertura das Olimpíadas de Beijjing, onde o artista reuniu 91.000 expectadores no estádio e quatro bilhões de pessoas no mundo para ver o show de explosões que já é sua marca registrada.
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source: glanceit
O artista chinês Cai Guo Quiang nasceu em Quanzhou, no sudeste da China, morou no Japão e atualmente vive em Nova York. O artista trousse grandes painéis produzidos com materiais como pólvora, aviões, naves e grandes instalações além de ter feito homenagem a artistas como Yves Klein (que “inventou o azul Klein”). Cai Guo-Qiang ganhou um Leão de Ouro na Bienal de Veneza, em 1999, além de ter desenhado os efeitos pirotécnicos das cerimônias de abertura e encerramento das Olimpíadas de Pequim, em 2008. Formado em cenografia pela Academia de Teatro de Xangai, o artista explora bastante o espaço, aproveitando-se dos artefatos tecnológicos para encorpar as ideias e levar o público ao “estado de sonho” que deseja.
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source: laboitevertefr
Cai Guo-Qiang est un artiste plasticien chinois qui a crée cette installation d’une meute de loups empaillés qui se heurte à un mur de verre.
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source: michdich

“《桉树》(2013) 则运来长达三十一米的巨树悬挂于美术馆中庭长廊。整棵巨树来自将为城市发展而清除的树林。作品受昆士兰南部兰明顿国家公园 (Lamington National Park)的参天古木启发而作，为观众创造冥想的氛围与身临其境的奇特体验。”

“蔡国强的作品往往构成对社会或艺术问题的挑衅。《桉树》是未完成的作品，它邀请观众思考树的过去与未来，留下意外的可能和机会”斯托勒说。
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source: mamac-niceorg

Né en 1957 à Quanzhou, dans la province de Fujian, il grandit pendant la révolution culturelle chinoise avant de séjourner dix ans au Japon et de s’installer à New York en 1995. Formé à l’École de Théâtre de Shanghai de 1981 à 1985, Cai explore tout d’abord les propriétés de la poudre à canon dans ses dessins, recherches qui le mèneront à l’expérimentation d’explosifs à plus grande échelle et au développement de sa “marque” symbolisée par des événements pyrotechniques. Ses installations, inspirées du feng shui, de la Philosophie Occidentale ainsi que des débats sociaux contemporains mettent en valeur une approche adaptée à un espace, à sa culture et à son histoire. Eminemment poétiques et ambitieux dans leur identité, ces événements tendent à établir un échange entre les spectateurs et le vaste univers qui les entoure.

Artiste de renommée internationale, Cai Guo-Qiang a marqué les esprits depuis ces dernières années, notamment en 2008 avec la cérémonie d’ouverture et de clôture des Jeux Olympiques de Pékin et ses expositions personnelles au Guggenheim de New York puis de Bilbao. Son travail où la poudre à canon joue un rôle prépondérant (aussi bien dans les dessins que les événements pyrotechniques) entre en résonance avec celui d’Yves Klein et apporte toute l’évidence de cette exposition.

La réalisation de Travels in the Mediterranean, dessin de 28 mètres de long spécialement conçu pour l’exposition et réalisé avec des pigments et de la poudre à canon, donnera lieu à une performance dans les anciens Abattoirs de Nice en association étroite avec le projet de mutation à l’œuvre sur ce lieu, avant d’être présenté au musée devant un parterre d’eau. Réalisée en public, cette fresque poétique et sensuelle décrit le ressenti d’une étudiante de Shanghai face à la découverte du territoire azuréen.

Une gigantesque épave de 15 mètres de long emplie de porcelaine, sortie de l’eau puis reconstituée pour chaque exposition par 7 pêcheurs d’Iwaki au Japon invitera le spectateur à une autre expérience spirituelle et sensorielle basée sur le voyage.

Enfin, la projection de cinq vidéographies grand format offre un aperçu de son travail pyrotechnique, immergeant le spectateur au sein de cette œuvre résolument spectaculaire et grandiose. A la fois pédagogique et spirituelle, cette exposition s’affiche comme un événement unique qui marquera le paysage azuréen et la scène internationale.