{"id":17506,"date":"2008-02-21T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/02\/video-pyrotechnic-artist-cai-guo-qiang-at-work\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T23:33:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T06:33:03","slug":"video-pyrotechnic-artist-cai-guo-qiang-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/02\/video-pyrotechnic-artist-cai-guo-qiang-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyrotechnic Artist Cai Guo-Qiang at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy,\u201d said Cai Guo-Qiang, the first Chinese artist to have a solo show at New York&#8217;s Guggenheim Museum, in a profile of the artist in the February 17 issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/17\/magazine\/17Fireworks-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=Cai%20Guo-Qiang&st=nyt&scp=1&oref=slogin\">New York Times Magazine<\/a>.  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.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=f14f365dd2ae53dc79b7b6d6f55a16e29001e6a2\">video<\/a> of Cai at work.<\/p>\n<p>More about Cai Guo-Qiang, from <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/02\/pop-goes-the-easel\/\">CDT<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/artworld\/2008\/02\/25\/080225craw_artworld_schjeldahl\">New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy,\u201d said Cai Guo-Qiang, the first Chinese artist to have a solo show at New York&#8217;s Guggenheim Museum, in a profile of the artist in the February 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine. 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