Cai Guo-Qiang’s Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan
WEBThis significant and large treatment has stabilized the piece for travel, exhibition, and storage, thereby extending its long-term preservation. The Guggenheim Conservation Department treated Cai Guo-Qiang’s work Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The …
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WEB5 days ago · 00:00. 01:10. Cai Guo-Qiang is best known for his drawings using gunpowder— which you can see at Pasadena’s USC Pacific Asia Museum starting this week—as well as his ephemeral, large-scale ...
SoHo Guggenheim | Cai Guo-Qiang
WEBCry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan. 1996. 108 sheepskin bags, wooden branches, paddles, rope, three Toyota engines, and photocopies of various magazine covers and article clippings. Installation dimensions variable. Approximately: 350 x 1,986 x 261 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan [Cai Guo-Qiang]
WEBEven though he’d been working as an artist for over a decade at the time of its debut, the 1996 display of Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf was Guo-Qiang’s first major American showing; he was a finalist in the very first year of the now-very-fancy-and-well-known Hugo Boss Prize.
WEBCai Guo-Qiang, Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan, 1996. 108 sheepskin floats, branches, wooden paddles, rope, three Toyota car engines, and photocopies of various magazine covers and article clippings, dimensions variable.
Cai Guo-Qiang - Astrup Fearnley Museet
WEBThe work Cry Dragon, Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Kahn (1996) was made of 108 stuffed sheepskins shaped as a dragon, and commented on socio-political changes in the relationship between China and the United States – a future and a present superpower.
Cai Guo-Qiang - Wikipedia
WEBCai Guo-Qiang's practice draws on a variety of symbols, narratives, traditions and materials.These include fengshui, Chinese medicine, shanshui paintings, science, flora and fauna, portraiture, and fireworks. [3] Much of his work draws on Maoist/Socialist concepts for content, especially his gunpowder drawings, which strongly reflect Mao Zedong's tenet "destroy nothing, create nothing."
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe - Alexandra Munroe
WEBThis retrospective, I Want to Believe, presents the full spectrum of the artist’s protean, multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity. Excerpt from the Guggenheim Museum Born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, in 1957, Cai Guo-Qiang studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe / Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
WEBMar 24, 2009 · In 1996, the work Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark Of Genghis Khan, was a finalist in inaugural Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Three years later he was the recipient of the Golden Lion Award at the 48th Venice Biennale. In 2007, Cai was awarded the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim in NYC
WEBFeb 20, 2008 · Cai Guo-Qiang was first exhibited by the Guggenheim in 1996, when he was selected as a finalist for the inaugural Hugo Boss Prize. The installation work he presented, Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan, currently installed as part of the retrospective, is a highlight of the Guggenheim’s contemporary art collection.
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