“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy,” said Cai Guo-Qiang, the first Chinese artist to have a solo show at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, in a profile of the artist in the February 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Cai, whose artwork involves exploding gunpowder on rice paper will also direct the special effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
Watch a video of Cai at work.
More about Cai Guo-Qiang, from CDT and the New Yorker.
