Video: Sky Ladder - explosions and fireworks at the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are different artists! Someone draws with a pencil, someone - with oil paints, someone with a balloon. And there are some authors who have nothing to do with painting as such. But they burn, blow up, lift entire buildings into the air. Also, of course, for artistic purposes. These are the creators that belong to Cai Guo-Qiangwhose unusual Exhibition with the title Sky ladder recently opened in Los Angeles. About the unusual work of Tsai Guo-tsian, who has a strange passion for gunpowder, we have already talked about on the site Kulturologiya. RF. Our regular readers already know about his personal exhibition Saraab, portraits of gunpowder miners, an installation with exploding cars and many other works by this artist from New York.
Today we will tell you about Tsai Guo-tsian's new solo exhibition called Sky Ladder, recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles.
This exhibition consists of four works. Three of them are gunpowder paintings. But the last, fourth, is a huge open-air installation, which every day, with the onset of darkness, begins to burn and explode.
By this time, spectators are gathering not far from her, but still at a safe distance. To their delight, this installation begins to sparkle, burns, creating amazing spectacle fiery drawings, and then generally explodes with a huge fireworks. Tsai Guo-tsian himself explains the idea of these works by his desire to create a new world, beautiful, bright, fast, spectacular, metaphysical. Ladder will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles until June 30, 2012, delighting visitors with new explosions every day.
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