Born in Quanzhou but based in New York since 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang works across various media and is particularly well known for his performance pieces created with explosives.
It is a multidisciplinary practice is grounded in his lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy as a means to inquire into our relationship with the universe. Exposing traditional Chinese materials, paper, porcelain and silk to gunpowder explosions during a series of live ignitions of small and intimate to epic proportions.
“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy” Cai Guo-Qiang