Cai Guo-Qiang : I Want to Believe
New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. F/F. Item #125380
Fine in Fine jacket. ; ISBN: 0892073721. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe, Solomon R. Guffenheim Museum, New York, February 22, 2008-May 28, 2008 ; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, August 18-September 20, 2008 ; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, March 2009-September 2009"--Title page verso.; Folio - 13" to 23" tall; Description: 315 pages : illustration s (chiefly color). Contents: Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe / Alexandra Munroe --The dialectics of art and the event / Wang Hui --Image explosiuon : global readymades / David Joselit --The art of expenditure / Miwon Kwon. Other Titles: I want to believe. Responsibilit y: [edited by] Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe. Abstract: "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang - best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist's creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs, and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibitions site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, this volume illuminates Cai's significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated with more than 230 images, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon, and Wang Hui - along with 54 documented plate entries. It is the defining scholarly publication of the artist thus far."--Jacket.
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