Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang’s Creative Destruction

From Theme Magazine: If Cai Guo-Qiang’s return to China is greeted by fireworks, the irony will not be lost on on the New York-based artist. As the artistic director of visual and special effects for the Beijing Olympics, Cai...

Cai Guo-Qiang: Exploding Expectations

From CNN: Gunpowder, fireworks and attention-grabbing installations mark Cai Guo-Qiang as one of the world’s biggest and brightest artists. The Chinese artist is about to show the whole world what he can do with a...

“I Am Eternally Optimistic; I Am Chinese”

The Art Newspaper published an interview with Cai Guo-Qiang, whose work is currently being shown in a retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York: TAN: Do you recognise the so-called new China that everybody is taking about,...

Pyrotechnic Artist Cai Guo-Qiang at Work

“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...

Pop Goes The Easel

Newsweek profiles Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang in its February 28 issue of Newsweek. Cai is known for his “explosive” art work and has won several prizes and awards for his work. He is also noted for his current art...

Carol Vogel: Feng Shui in Venice? China Lands at Biennale

From the New York Times: This week Mr. Cai has taken on a new challenge. He is the curator of the Biennale’s first official Chinese pavilion, sponsored in large part by the Chinese government. It is one of some 30 national pavilions in the Biennale, which opens to the public on June 12 and runs […]

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