Cai Guo-Qiang

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CAI GUO-QIANG: FALLEN BLOSSOMS
Text by Carlos Basualdo, David Elliott, Marion Boulton Stroud, Wang Mingxian.
THE FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780972455657 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2010
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CAI GUO-QIANG: I WANT TO BELIEVE
Text by David Joselit, Miwon Kwon, Alexandra Munroe, Wang Hui.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892073719 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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CAI GUO-QIANG: HEAD ON
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775718622 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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CAI GUO-QIANG: TRANSPARENT MONUMENT
Text by Gary Tinterow, David A. Ross.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881586172 | US $34.95
Pub Date: 11/1/2006
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Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms

Text by Carlos Basualdo, David Elliott, Marion Boulton Stroud, Wang Mingxian.
Published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Perhaps the best-known Chinese artist of his generation, Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1967) is famed for his ambitious explosion projects and large, theatrical sculptures and installations. Fallen Blossoms presents his newest works, documenting a 2009-2010 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop, with 75 full-color reproductions of the explosion project Fallen Blossoms and the gunpowder drawing "Time Scroll." Also included are photographs of the ongoing work "Time Flies Like a Weaving Shuttle," which involves the labors of five Tujia weavers in residence at the Fabric Workshop, weaving on traditional looms, and which is in progress for the duration of the Fabric Workshop exhibition. Fallen Blossoms contains an introduction by Marion Boulton Stroud, artist's statement by Guo-Qiang and essays by Carlos Basualdo, David Elliott and Wang Mingxian.

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

Text by David Joselit, Miwon Kwon, Alexandra Munroe, Wang Hui.
Published by Guggenheim Museum

I Want to Believe accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang--best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder and fireworks. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist’s creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibition site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, this volume illuminates Cai’s significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated more than 368 pages, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon and Wang Hui--along with some 60 documented plate entries. It is the defining scholarly publication on the artist thus far.

Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On

Introduction by Friedhelm Hütte. Text by Dan Cameron, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Zhu Qingsheng, Ariane Grigoteit.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Cai Guo-Qiang, born in Fujian Province in 1957, may be the most widely known Chinese artist of his generation. He is now based in New York, where his work has been presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other venues. He recently curated the Chinese Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. And he conceived the works that appear in this book-within-a-book (a book inlaid inside a larger book, designed by Stefan Sagmeister) for the Deutsche Guggenheim. This project reflects both his own heritage and Berlin's, combining symbols of the Middle Kingdom with Western elements--notably gunpowder and fireworks with a stage set of a German house, which Cai blew sky high, videotaping the proceedings. Elsewhere a pack of 99 life-sized wolves barrels towards a glass wall: both bloodlust and transparency still seem topical half a century after World War II. Also includes a selection of earlier works.

Cai Guo-Qiang: Transparent Monument

Text by Gary Tinterow, David A. Ross.
Published by Charta

In the Spring of 2006, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese-born, New York-based artist known for his ambitious explosion works and large, theatrical sculptures and installations--his most notorious work, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art soon after 9/11, was a barrage of exploding fireworks that hovered over the city, showing that 'something used for destruction and terror can also be constructive, beautiful, and healing'--was invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific exhibition in the museum's roof garden. Those four works are featured in-depth here, including a tall glass sculpture surrounded by replicas of dead birds; a stone relief depicting post-9/11 vignettes; a pair of life-sized cast-resin crocodiles pierced with thousands of sharp objects confiscated at airport-security checkpoints; and "Clear Sky Black Cloud," an ephemeral work consisting of an actual black cloud that would hover over the roof garden and then burst into the sky at regular intervals, bleeding afterwards into nothingness.