Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo -Qiang (Chinese蔡国强/蔡国强, Pinyin Cai Guoqiang, Cai Tongyong Pinyin Gúociáng, W.-G. Ts'ai4 Kuo ² ² ch'iang, GR Tsay Gwochyang, PEH oē - jī Chhòa Kok Kiong; * December 8, 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian) is a Chinese sculptor, painter, performance artist and curator.

Life

Cai Guo -Qiang graduated from 1981 to 1985 trained as a set designer at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. During his stay in Tokyo from 1986 to 1995, he dealt with gunpowder as a working material and staged performances with pyrotechnics. Since 1995, Cai Guo -Qiang lives in New York, he attended the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Work

In his work, Cai Guo -Qiang uses a large number of symbols, traditions and materials back, from about Feng Shui, traditional Chinese medicine, dragons, roller coasters, computers, fireworks or gunpowder. Part of his work is based on a Maoist and socialist aesthetics.

Cai Guo -Qiang is one of the internationally best-known representatives of contemporary Chinese art. He represented his native country at the 1999 Venice Biennale with Venice 's Rent Collection Courtyard, a project in which he propagandistic sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard 1965 by Chinese craftsmen - including one who was involved in the original version - could replicate locally. While Cai Guo -Qiang was honored in Venice, the Golden Lion, strained the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, where the original was designed, a process for plagiarism to which, however, was not pursued. Cai Guo -Qiang himself returned in 2005 as curator of the Chinese pavilion to Venice.

He was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Boss Prize and won the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 2001 and the Art Prize CalArts / Alpert Award in the Arts. 2008, a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was shown in New York, which was issued in the Chinese National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. He also organized the fireworks at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing.

His work is controversial. Some critics accuse the artist in front of an opportunistic approach, as it would change in his references to politics and philosophy constantly the personal standpoint. Furthermore, has led his active participation in the organization of the Olympic Games from Beijing to controversy, while other Chinese artists such as Ai Weiwei, boycotted the event of political protest.

2012 the artist received from the Japanese imperial family, Praemium Imperiale.

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

  • Cai Guo -Qiang: I Want to Believe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009
  • Inopportune: Stage One & Illusion. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 2007
  • Cai Guo -Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006
  • He curated the first China Pavilion at the 51st Biennale di Venezia 2005
  • Cai Guo -Qiang: Traveler. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2004
  • Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park. New York, 2003
  • Transient Rainbow. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002;
  • Cai Guo -Qiang. Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, 2002
  • APEC Cityscape Fireworks Show. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, 2001
  • Cai Guo -Qiang: An Arbitrary History. Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, France, 2001
  • Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century. Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, 1997
  • Flying Dragon in the Heavens. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 1997
  • The Earth Has Its Black Hole Too. Hiroshima, Japan, 1994
  • Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters. Jiayuguan, China, 1993.
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