![]() ![]() ![]() ArtReview Asia caught up with the artist shortly after the event. It launched with a new daytime firework event titled When the Sky Blooms with Sakura, which was commissioned by the luxury fashion house and its creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. The exhibition explores the constructive and destructive potential of explosions as well as the artist’s broader concerns with the nature of the universe in both its observable and unseen forms. In June the artist returned to Japan, where he had lived from 1986 to 1994 (before moving to New York), for a retrospective exhibition of his work at the National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), titled Ramble in the Cosmos – From Primeval Fireball Onward, which was coorganised by Saint Laurent. While he is celebrated for his day- and nighttime firework performances (not least as part of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing), and related gunpowder drawings, his work also explores China’s historical past (exhibitions of his have been made in conjunction with figures from the ancient terracotta warriors or in Beijing’s Forbidden City) and technological future (via virtual reality and the development of NFTs). How much fusewire does it take to set off enough explosives to highlight the contours of the Earth?Ĭai Guo-Qiang is one of China’s best-known artists.
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