Group 6

Joanna

He is an artist, a dreamer,a person who always thinks out of the fixed system and logic.

He uses his incomprehensible imagination and his almost crazy ability of practice to create new records in the field of contemporary art continuously.

Who is Cai Guo – Qiang?

Who is Cai Guo – Qiang?

• He born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

• 1957 - Cai studied stage design

• In the 1980s - burgeoning experimental art world

• 1986 - moving to Japan:– rich vein of international 20th-century art– critical thought

• using gunpowder to create his drawings

• related outdoor explosion events

His Works

• 1.• 1. The Earth Has Its Black Hole Too:

– Project for Extraterrestrials No. 16 – Date: 1994/10/1 6:01 pm

• 2. The Century with Mushroom Clouds:– Project for the 20th Century – Date: in 1996, during February to April

• 3. APEC Cityscape Fireworks– Date: 2001

• 4. Transient Rainbow – Date: 2002 /6/29 9:30 pm

• 5. Black Rainbow Valencia – Date: 2005 /5/22 12:05 pm

• 6. Red Flag – Date: 2005/6/17 7:15pm

• 7. Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Footprint Fireworks– Date:2008/8/8 and 8/24

His Works in Taiwan

• 1.• 1. Golden Missile – Date:1998/6/13 1:15pm-1:25pm

• 2. No Destruction, No Construction:– Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art – Date:1998/8/21 6:35 pm

• 3. The Mark of 921– Date: 2000

• 4. Inaugural exhibition of Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art – Date: September, 2004

• 5. Art Shopping Network – Date: 2005

Hanging Out in the Museum

• 1.

His Works in Taiwan

• Taiwan Fine Arts Museum 1A+1B+2A+2B

• 2009

• Inopportune: Stage One• Material: 9 Cars neon lamps

His Works in Taiwan

• Inopportune: Stage Two

• Head On

• Inopportune: Stage One • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2

9c6-6Blwo&feature=related• Transient Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so25JBVkrls&feature=related

• Beijing Olympics Footprint Fireworks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpRDirHPh4&feature=related

His Works

References

• http://www.caiguoqiang.tw/• http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!.s6FSCOTRkHbJ

xUcZ4gQ/article?mid=676• http://o-kevin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cai-guo-qian

g-hanging-out-in-museum.html• http://www.waakao.com/en/happening/night/594-

hanging-out-in-the-museum-with-cai-guo-qiang• http://faithpeter.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/cai-g

uo-qiang-hanging-out-in-the-museum/• http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=

%E8%94%A1%E5%9C%8B%E5%BC%B7%E7%88%86%E7%A0%B4&search_type=&aq=0

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Questions from Jessie Ho

• Why and how do you plan this field trip?• What sort of feeling and impression have

you got from this visit? Do you see something different from other kind of art exhibition?

• What do you think about being an artist?• How did he make those big and huge

frameworks of art?• Would you want to be an assistant to an

artist like him?

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