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?
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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