Cai Guo-Qiang

Introduction
 Cai Guo-Qiang is a  The skillful use of gun
Chinese visual artist powder in his plans
famous for his gun makes Cai an
powder paintings and exceptional artist (Li
fireworks art. 69).
 Cai began his drawing  The extensive
career while a student knowledge on the use
inspired by Chinese of gunpowder has
culture and politics. made him come up
 He uses oil and burnt with his remarkable
gun powder to recreate explosion signature
stick figures and other event.
abstract patterns.
Inopportune
 The Inopportune is one of Cai’s significant
works.
 The figurative multi-media sculpture consists
of nine cars that are dangling from the
ceiling and walls with lightning rods.
 Guo-Qiang's vision for this beautiful
sculpture was to reenact an exploding car
from contemporary action films or what it
would look like if terrorists detonated the
vehicle.
 The Sky Ladder
 The Sky Ladder is a 1,650-  As the massive sculpture
foot ladder of fire climbing ignites, it creates a fiery vision
into the skies above artist Cai that miraculously ascends to
Guo-Qiang's hometown. the heavens.
 It is the largest of Cai's artistic  The sculpture shows the
work going 1,650-foot high in exemplary talent of the artist.
the Haiyu Islands (Li 72).
 My Stories of Painting
 My Stories of Painting features Cai's long
painting journey in two different
perspectives (Turner 34).
 The first follows Cai as he explores
painting showcasing about many works
from different periods, some for the first
time.
 The second path is that of his family: his
grandmother, parents, wife, and daughters
and how their generation continues.
 The pieces featured show his skill using
gunpowder to construct various reflections.