Cai guo-qiang gunpowder series art

18 October

Cai Guo-Qiang (b. , Quanzhou, China) is, quite literally, one of the world’s most ground-breaking artists.

Cai guo-qiang: gunpowder paintings

He is best known as the Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics where he treated awestruck viewers to possibly the greatest fireworks show in history. His practice ranges over painting and drawing, video, installation and performance. This exhibition looks at experiments with his signature medium – gunpowder.

Including 14 pieces from the s right up to the present, it explores Cai’s cutting-edge work with mainly traditional Chinese materials.

Cai Guo-Qiang is an internationally established artist who has lived, worked and exhibited around the world. He is the recipient of the art-world’s most prestigious awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in and both the Praemium Imperiale and the US Department of State Medal for the Arts in   He has had solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan an