Friday, March 9, 2012

Cai Guo-Qiang at MoCA

More sensation in LA: a gunpowder drawing by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z3vMRSS9Mg

This is in preparation for an exhibition of his work at MoCA.

http://www.moca.org/museum/futureexhibitionslist.php

Cai uses gunpowder and explosions frequently as a kind of writing, sometimes ephemeral, as in this iconic image staged at our very own Nevada Test Site.

http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/cai/cai_overview.html

What does the work mean?  Are the explosions surrogates for war, conflict, controversy...nuclear bombs?  Are they menacing?  Are they an effective metaphor?

A field trip to Los Angeles seems in order for late spring: Levitated Mass, a land art show at MoCA, "Ends of the Earth," and Cai Guo-Qiang.  Who's in?

1 comment:

  1. I would love to go to LA and see Levitated Mass. The grads are planning a trip to Cali, at this point they are considering San Francisco, San Diego, or LA. Maybe this could persuade them to go to LA.

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