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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

    Cai Guo-Qiang
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    • "Drawing for Transient Rainbow,"
      2003
      Gunpowder on paper
      198 × 157 inches

      Photo by Hiro Ihara

      Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Reflection,"
      Installation view: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
      2004
      Excavated boat, porcelains,
      18 × 50 × 16 feet

      Photo by Cai Guo-Qiang

      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Reflection,"
      Installation view: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
      2004
      Excavated boat, porcelains,
      18 × 50 × 16 feet.

      Photo by Cai Guo-Qiang

      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Illusion,"
      Installation view: MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
      2004
      3 channel video installation: DVD projectors, 3 DVD players, 6 x 24-foot screen, car, spent fireworks

      Photo by Kevin Kennefick

      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Inopportune: Stage One,"
      Installation view: MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
      2004
      Cars, sequenced mulit-channel light tubes
      dimensions variable

      Photo by Kevin Kennefick

      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Inopportune: Stage One," detail
      Installation view: MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
      2004
      Cars, sequenced mulit-channel light tubes
      dimensions variable

      Photo by Jessica Hamlin

      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy ©Art21, Inc.

    • "Inopportune: Stage Two,"
      Installation view: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
      2004
      Tigers: paper mache, plaster, fiberglass, resin, painted hide; arrows: brass, bamboo, feathers; stage prop: styrofoam, wood, canvas, acrylic paint
      dimensions variable
      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Inopportune: Stage Two," detail
      Installation view: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
      2004
      Tigers: paper mache, plaster, fiberglass, resin, painted hide; arrows: brass, bamboo, feathers; stage prop: styrofoam, wood, canvas, acrylic paint
      dimensions variable
      Collection of the Artist

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

    • "Black Rainbow," proposal
      Explosion project for Valencia, Spain Date: May 1, 2005 Time: 12 noon Site: River Park, between Flowers Bridge and Calatrava Bridge
      2005

      Courtesy Cai Guo-Qiang

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