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Cai Guo-Qiang
No full textEphemeral 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\u27s sketchbooks, presented here for the first time
Transient Rainbow
No full textDuration 15 seconds; Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Conceived by artist Cai Guo-Qiang and produced by Fireworks by Grucci Inc., Transient Rainbow celebrates the opening of MoMA QNS with a rainbow of fireworks that cascade across the East River, tracking the Museum's movement from Manhattan to Queens. The dazzling visual effect resembled a rapidly moving monumental arch (500 feet wide and 120 feet high), momentarily connecting the two banks at the thundering speed of 100 feet per second."
http://www.grucci.com/pr6_23_02.html
CD 01/07/2007full vie
Correction: Nitro-redox reactions at a frustrated borane/phosphane Lewis pair
No full textCorrection for ‘Nitro-redox reactions at a frustrated borane/phosphane Lewis pair’ by Guo-Qiang Chen et al., Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 6820–6823.</p
Inopportune: Stage One
No full text"...nine white cars, arrayed in space as though a single car caught in a stop motion photograph, hurtle though the gallery, enveloped by pulsating rods light." MASS MoCa press release
http://www.massmoca.org/press_releases/10_2005/10_01_05.html
CD 1/7/2008installation view, at MASS MOCA, 200
Inopportune: Stage Two
No full text"In an adjacent galleries, Cai presents 9 life-sized tigers, each shot through with one hundred bronze-tipped arrows." MASS MoCa press release
http://www.massmoca.org/press_releases/10_2005/10_01_05.html
CD 1/7/2008Tigers: paper mache, plaster, fiber glass, resin, painted hide
Arrows: brass, bamboo, feathers
Stage prop: styrofoam, wood, canvas, acrylic paintinstallation view, at MASS MOCA, 200
Daoist Elements in Cai Guo-Qiang\u27s Inopportune and Head On
Full text linkThis thesis explores the Daoist elements in two of contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang\u27s (1957 - ) largest installations to date, Inopportune (2004) and Head On (2006). Comprising multi-media works including gunpowder paintings, simulated animal forms, and firework displays, the two installations explore themes related to the global threat of terrorism in Inopportune and the history of the Berlin Wall in Head On. In exploring these themes, Cai attempts to create a globally accessible dialogue by emphasizing universal elements related to the forces of creation and destruction. For this reason he implements the Daoist characteristics of yin and yang in Inopportune, and the flow of qi in Head On, in an effort to present examples of conflict as part of the eternal cycle of destruction and renewal. Chapters one and two explore the aspects relating to yin and yang in Stage One and Stage Two of Inopportune, and the elements of qi in Head On
Appendix – Supplemental material for Collapse resistance of steel frames with concrete slabs due to penultimate-side column loss
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix for Collapse resistance of steel frames with concrete slabs due to penultimate-side column loss by Guo-Qiang Li, Jing-Zhou Zhang and Jian Jiang in Advances in Structural Engineering</p
Sky ladder by Cai Guo-Qiang: the construction of a happening
Full text linkEl presente artículo analiza la obra Escalera al cielo del artista Cai Guo-Qiang, la cual tiene lugar en una pequeña isla de pescadores cerca
de la costa sureste de China. Se trata de una obra de arte que se despliega en el ámbito del territorio. La escalera es una estructura efímera,
que se construye para ser incendiada, y una construcción simbólica, que pretende conectar la tierra con el cielo, desde lo más general de
las aspiraciones humanas. A lo largo del análisis se establecen tres líneas temáticas que recorren la obra y que, a través de su relación con
otras referencias tanto teóricas como prácticas, se reconocen como vectores teóricos culturales. Estas son el extrañamiento producido
por el contraste escalar, las nuevas formas de arraigo presentes en la relación de la obra con la comunidad y la temporalidad accidentada
que conecta el pasado con el futuro a través del instante. Estos vectores se despliegan en la obra en forma de acontecimiento, arrojando
luz sobre la conflictividad territorial contemporánea, y tratando de apuntar hacia modos de actuación que puedan servir como claves en la
actuación arquitectónica.This paper analyzes the artwork Sky ladder by the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which took place in a small fishing island near the southeast coast of
China. This is an artwork that unfolds within the territory. The staircase is an ephemeral structure, built to be burned, and a symbolic construction,
which aims to connect the earth with the sky, following the most general of human aspirations. Throughout the analysis, three thematic lines are
identified and established, which —through their relationship with other theoretical and practical references— are recognized as cultural theoretical vectors. These are the estrangement produced by the scalar contrast, the new forms of rooting present in the relationship of the artwork
with the local community, and the uneven temporality that connects the past with the future through the instant. These vectors are deployed
in the artwork in the form of happening, shedding light on contemporary territorial issues, and trying to point to modes of intervention that can
serve as keys to architectural work
Escalera al cielo de Cai Guo-Qiang, la construcción de un acontecimiento
No full textThis paper analyzes the artwork Sky ladder by the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which took place in a small fishing island near the southeast coast of China. This is an artwork that unfolds within the territory. The staircase is an ephemeral structure, built to be burned, and a symbolic construction, which aims to connect the earth with the sky, following the most general of human aspirations. Throughout the analysis, three thematic lines are identified and established, which —through their relationship with other theoretical and practical references— are recognized as cultural theoretical vectors. These are the estrangement produced by the scalar contrast, the new forms of rooting present in the relationship of the artwork with the local community, and the uneven temporality that connects the past with the future through the instant. These vectors are deployed in the artwork in the form of happening, shedding light on contemporary territorial issues, and trying to point to modes of intervention that can serve as keys to architectural work.El presente artículo analiza la obra Escalera al cielo del artista Cai Guo-Qiang, la cual tiene lugar en una pequeña isla de pescadores cerca de la costa sureste de China. Se trata de una obra de arte que se despliega en el ámbito del territorio. La escalera es una estructura efímera, que se construye para ser incendiada, y una construcción simbólica, que pretende conectar la tierra con el cielo, desde lo más general de las aspiraciones humanas. A lo largo del análisis se establecen tres líneas temáticas que recorren la obra y que, a través de su relación con otras referencias tanto teóricas como prácticas, se reconocen como vectores teóricos culturales. Estas son el extrañamiento producido por el contraste escalar, las nuevas formas de arraigo presentes en la relación de la obra con la comunidad y la temporalidad accidentada que conecta el pasado con el futuro a través del instante. Estos vectores se despliegan en la obra en forma de acontecimiento, arrojando luz sobre la conflictividad territorial contemporánea, y tratando de apuntar hacia modos de actuación que puedan servir como claves en la actuación arquitectónica
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