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Commissioned by Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Photo by Tatsumi Masatoschi, courtesy Cai Studio![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-2_lpcgqp](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/C47T7X6T3VI3ZNOJ3GQKHDMTLM.jpg?auth=4bd064bd49932ba9640aba6a573aa48f0a32383c261e74c62548ff77d34cfb9e&width=800&height=801)
Comisioned by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporany Art
Photo by Tsukuru Asada, courtesy Cai Studio![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-3_kzwtzs](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/GKMS3Z63DRNGLBWXDJSCRCJ4DY.jpg?auth=8f96db32100d1c9458625d3b71331e7a192576273999e246b38919987a02d69f&width=800&height=532)
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![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-5_c4pk5m](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/PY3RCXLH4VPXNERO75WT7MHFV4.jpg?auth=0871b8b3fa7253f10042e0fd929a2ef31a01ddecd54833b810dcd1196d134331&width=800&height=449)
Deutsche Bank Collection, Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG
Erika Barahona-Ede![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-6_w0so8b](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/IRLX2TAMHFPU7LCUX6BYCXIRXA.jpg?auth=3e9f765544e36eb83645713510487e2b3bef3f20d61c5496a0be33673b69e416&width=800&height=528)
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![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-7_jikuj2](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/63W7ZRQ4XJMRJLGYOLK5FV34GU.jpg?auth=027779c98062560d2556a59f259c490582df12416eb89d64cacd32a247d59cff&width=800&height=556)
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![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-9_manzvf](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/ORVNAMB6ZBOZ7CSKGC74QC6D5Q.jpg?auth=20da7ed11f82992c2041623a35c60a11a5de9099f58cc1beb1687c019bb9d2a6&width=800&height=1214)
Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006
Erika Barahona-Ed![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-4_eos0ia](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/UJ7JO4LM65ORXCDOKINFN22DCE.jpg?auth=8a453b4be50644b891f8574c8b46489b3a07a56d68d43b94bbed582ef4ac9f9f&width=800&height=377)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-12_r9f9xh](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/DI44HTUZMBNQXD6GZ7RMCPMDVE.jpg?auth=894bffe75c57219ebdcbf8ce55458f539c7088d1cdb9861d11e18ebbbe181c11&width=800&height=554)
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Installation view at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, 2009
Erika Barahona-Ede![galleries/2009/08/20/cai-guo-qiang/cai-guo-qiang-13_siurld](https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/7VJ6R6JOIZMLNP24TYNBXLRK7M.jpg?auth=b092eacd4e66d1efbfd0b54198760dab7cd0f7ef65f4357551e8f9385454e3e7&width=800&height=525)
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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