Cai Guo-Qiang - Hardcover

Fei Dawei; Andrei Ujica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500974934 ISBN 13: 9780500974933

Publisher: Fondation Cartier, 2000

Synopsis

Ephemeral and monumental, the work of Cai Guo-Qiang is founded upon an ancient religious and philosophical aesthetic tradition. Borrowing elements from Chinese culture, the artist also makes reference to Western art in the wake of Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and the Arte Povera artists.Seeking a working method that would bring him a "feeling of freedom", Cai Guo Qiang experimented with various materials, and in 1989 he unveiled a series of drawings created with gunpowder. These drawings, entitled Projects for Extraterrestrials, are among the works published in this book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier. Also included are the artist's sketchbooks, presented here for the first time.

About this title

Review:

On the Contemporary Artists Series

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About the Author:

Dana Friis-Hansen is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Austin Museum of Art in Texas. Previously he was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1995-99), Associate Curator at Nanjo and Associates in Tokyo (1991-5) and Curator at the List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (1989-91). Friss-Hansen was co-curator (with Fumio Nanjo) of 'TransCulture' at the 1995 Venice Biennale.

Octavio Zaya is a critic and curator. Advisor of Museo de Arte Contemporąneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC) in Leon, Spain, and co-director of Atląntica, a bilingual quarterly magazine of art and culture, he also belongs to the editorial board for NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art and Lab 71 (New York), and is a US correspondent for Flash Art. He has co-curated such international exhibitions as the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials (1995 and 1997) and Documenta 11 (2002).

Takashi Serizawa, once an urban designer, is now Director of the environmental and art organisation P3 Art and Environment in Tokyo. He is the author of View from the Moon: Hints on Living in the Twenty-first Century (1999), and the publisher of the website REALTOKYO.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fondation Cartier
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0500974934
• ISBN 13: 9780500974933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176