Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang ( Chinese 蔡國強 / 蔡国强 , Pinyin Cài Gúoqiáng , Tongyong Pinyin Cài Gúociáng , W.-G. Ts'ai 4 Kuo 2 ch'iang 2 , GR Tsay Gwochyang , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Chhòa Kok-kiông ; * December 8, 1957 in Quanzhou , Fujian ) is a Chinese sculptor , painter , action artist and curator .
Life
Cai Guo-Qiang trained as a set designer at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985 . During his stay in Tokyo from 1986 to 1995, he dealt with gunpowder as a working material and staged performances with pyrotechnic effects. Cai Guo-Qiang has lived in New York since 1995 , where he attended the Institute for Contemporary Art.
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In his work, Cai Guo-Qiang draws on a large number of symbols, traditions and materials, for example from Feng Shui , traditional Chinese medicine , dragons, roller coasters, computers, fireworks and gunpowder. Part of his work is based on a Maoist and socialist aesthetic.
Cai Guo-Qiang is one of the best-known international representatives of contemporary Chinese art. He represented his home country at the 1999 Venice Biennale with Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard , a project in which he had the propaganda sculpture group Rent Collection Courtyard from 1965 rebuilt on site by Chinese craftsmen - including one who was involved in the original version. While Cai Guo-Qiang was honored with the Golden Lion in Venice for this, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, where the original was designed, initiated a plagiarism lawsuit , which was not pursued. Cai Guo-Qiang himself returned to Venice in 2005 as curator of the Chinese pavilion.
He was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1996 and won the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale and in 2001 the CalArts / Alpert Award in the Arts . In 2008 a major retrospective was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which was also exhibited at the Chinese National Museum of the Arts in Beijing and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao . He also organized the fireworks display for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
His work is controversial. Some critics accuse the artist of an opportunistic attitude, since he would constantly change his personal point of view in his references to politics and philosophy. Furthermore, his active participation in organizing the Beijing Olympics has sparked controversy, while other Chinese artists, such as Ai Weiwei , boycotted the event in political protest.
In 2012 the artist received the Praemium Imperiale from the Japanese imperial family .
Selected exhibitions and projects
- Cai Guo-Chiang: Falling Back to Earth. , Queensland Art Gallery , Brisbane , 2013/2014.
- Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York , 2008; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , 2009
- Inopportune: Stage One & Illusion. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle , 2007
- Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument. Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, 2006
- He curated the first Chinese pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005
- Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DC, 2004
- He organized and curated BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art ( Kinmen , Taiwan , 2004)
- Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park. New York, 2003
- Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern. Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London , 2003
- Transient rainbow. Museum of Modern Art , New York, 2002;
- Cai Guo-Qiang. Shanghai Art Museum , Shanghai, 2002
- APEC Cityscape Fireworks Show. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation , Shanghai, 2001
- Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History. Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, France, 2001
- Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century. Queens Museum of Art, Queens , New York, 1997
- Flying Dragon in the Heavens. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebæk, Denmark, 1997
- The Earth Has Its Black Hole Too. Hiroshima , Japan, 1994
- Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters. Jiayuguan , China, 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Ebony: "Who Owns 'The People's Art'?" , In: Art in America , October 2000 (English)
- ↑ http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis3-13-08.asp Cai Guo-Killer, Artnet Magazine (English)
- ↑ Cai Guo-Qiang ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 23, 2012
- ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 1, 2014.
- ^ Guggenheim Museum Bilbao : Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe. Retrieved July 6, 2009 .
- ↑ Lilian Tone, One Year in Fifteen Seconds ( Memento from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Case Study: Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002
Web links
- Review: Explosive Art - Cai Guo-Qiang in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), contribution by NDR to ttt from July 5, 2009 (with video)
- Biography, interviews, essays, pictures of the works of art and video clips (English)
- Website with information about Cai Guo-Qiang (English)
- Cai Guo-Qiang on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cai, Guo-Qiang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quanzhou |