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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • Cai Guo-Qiang at work on "Tigers with Arrows" (2005) at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, NY
      2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

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    • "Tigers with Arrows"
      detail
      2005
      Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as nine-panel screen
      230 × 692 cm (90 9/16 × 272 7/16 in.) overall

      Installation view at Cai Guo-Qiang's studio, New York, NY, 2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      Photo © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • "Tigers with Arrows"
      detail
      2005
      Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as nine-panel screen
      230 × 692 cm (90 9/16 × 272 7/16 in.) overall

      Installation view at Cai Guo-Qiang's studio, New York, NY, 2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      Photo © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • "Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky: Two Eagles"
      2004
      Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as six-panel screen
      230 × 465 cm (90 9/16 × 183 1/16 in.) overall

      Installation view at Cai Guo-Qiang's studio, New York, NY, 2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      Photo © ART21, Inc. 2005

    • "Nine Cars"
      2004
      Gunpowder on paper
      400 × 600 cm (157 1/2 × 236 1/4 in.)

      Installation view at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2005

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 3 episode, "Power," 2005

      Photo © ART21, Inc. 2005

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