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Cai Guo Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive new retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao features flying wolves, floating cars, and plenty of fireworks. VIEW OUR GALLERY

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Photo by Tatsumi Masatoschi, courtesy Cai Studio
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Commissioned by Zacheta National Gallery of Art

Photo by Tatsumi Masatoschi, courtesy Cai Studio
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Comisioned by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporany Art

Photo by Tsukuru Asada, courtesy Cai Studio
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Commissioned by The International Olympic Committee and The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Photo bu Wang Xiaoxi, courtesy Cai Studio
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Deutsche Bank Collection, Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG

Erika Barahona-Ede
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Life-size sculptures created on site by guest artisan sculptors; clay, wire and wood armatures, and other props and tools for sculpture, photocopies of documents and photographs related to Rent Collection Courtyard (dated 1965)

Erika Barahona-Ede
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Realized at Old Turia Riverbed Park, between Royal Bridge and Trinidad Bridge, Valencia, May 22, 2005, 12:05 p.m., approximately 1 minute

Juan Garcà­a Rosell
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Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006

Erika Barahona-Ed
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Photo by André Morin
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Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio
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Photo courtesy Cai Studio
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Installation view at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, 2009

Erika Barahona-Ede
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Erika Barahona-Ede
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Erika Barahona-Ede
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Erika Barahona-Ede
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Cai Guo-Qiang in front of his gunpowder drawing Crocodile and Sun at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, New York, 2007

Photo Ma Da, courtesy Cai Studio