#Cai Qiang

[zegalba]

Cai Guo-Qiang: 'Sky Ladder' (2015)

The artist created a 500 meter (1,650 foot) flaming ladder that took him 21 years to realize. The artwork was a gift to his grandmother who turned 100 years old, and to the rest of his family and hometown of Quanzhou, China.

#Cai Guo-Qiang #Sky Ladder #art #ladder #fire #china #quanzhou #2015

[jareckiworld]

Cai Guo-Qiang — Explosion (gunpowder, paper, mounted on canvas, 1988)

#Cai Guo-Qiang #chinese art #expressive art #explosion

[milksockets]

'fallen blossoms: explosion project' by cai guo-qiang, 2009 in xxl: when artists think big - éléa baucheron + diane routex (2014)

#my scan #cai guo qiang

[strathshepard]

Sky Ladder by Cai Guo-Qiang. The Sky Ladder was unveiled in 2016 over Quanzhou, China. It burned for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It was the artist's fourth and final attempt, as previous attempts had met only varying degrees of success. The artist says he had dreamt of a fire ladder 21 years prior and was very excited to see it come to life.

#cai guo qiang #fire #performance #installation #land art #ladders #china #blue

[2001hz]

Cai Guo-Qiang: 'Sunshine and Solitude' (2010) Exhibition, Location: Mexico, Mexico City

#cai guo qiang #cai guo qiang archive #sunshine and solitude #2010 #gunpowder #experimental #grunge #exhibition #location #mexico #mexico city #china

[newestcool]

Issey Miyake 1998 ''Dragon Explosion'' Creative Director Cai Guo-Qiang  Newest Cool

#newest cool #newestcool #Issey miyake #issey #miyake #pleats please #Issey Miyake pleats please #Japanese fashion #japanese fashion designer #japanese fashion design #tokyo fashion week #Rakuten Tokyo fashion week #RakutenFashionWeekTOKYO #RakutenFWT #pleats please dress #pleated dress #Cai Guo-Qiang

[aviel]

'When the Sky Blooms with Sakura' by Cai Guo-Qiang

#Cai Guo-Qiang #ART #Fireworks #Sakura #2023

[wintercorrybriea]

Cai Guo-Qiang

#Cai Guo-Qiang #art

[thunderstruck9]

Cai Guo-Qiang (Chinese, 1957), Sunset at the Great Wall, 1987. Oil on paper, 24 x 27 cm.

#cai guo-qiang #chinese art #cai guo qiang #great wall of china

[softestaura]

Sora Choi at Cai Guo-Qiang art studio for Vogue Plus February 2023 photographed by Xiangyu Liu

#sora choi #cai guo qiang #vogue china #vogue plus #xiangyu liu #theo liu

[oswlld]

oswlld's monthly wrap up: february

note: i am trying something a bit different this year, so bear with me as i figure out how i want to format this. i wanted to spend more time sharing what i consume, beyond what i rb, and put my thoughts in one place. these posts are okay to rb

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid [started 02/04, finished 02/13] I recall an article calling out TJR as one of many authors that are pro-israel and haven’t seen anything that disputes the claim. I don’t have much to contribute to the conversation anyways, so I’ll pass on leaving a review. — After Dark, Haruki Murakami [started 02/06, finished 02/21] What I admire about what Murakami accomplished with After Dark was achieving the right level of simplicity to bring out the tense undertones in the magical realism. I also really enjoyed being invited to float with the story, almost breaking a fourth wall and interacting with the spaces. 4⭐️ in storygraph. — When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut [started 02/24, still in prog] I am only about 50 pages in and I am already ill. Too early to form an opinion, thus I’ll offer a snippet of the book description: “A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.” Feels very timely reading this at the same time as watching Three-Body and then Oppenheimer in the next week or so.

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, Netflix [started: 02/02, finished 02/07] WOW!! Wowowowowow. Wow. This needs to be a mandatory watch, even though we are at the end of Black History Month. It’s a well curated journey through the slave era to present day, from shores of Africa to all areas of the US. It’s so empowering and inspiring. Don’t wait until June or next year, please educate yourselves and open your heart to this show. — African Folktales Reimagined, Netflix [started 02/02, finished 02/08] I heard about this show through an article posted on Short of the Week last year and immediately put it on my watchlist. What a wonderful choice of directors for this series. Such strong visionaries and visuals. My favorites out of the six stories were Enmity Djinn and MaMlambo. MaMlambo still has a chokehold on me. MAJOR trigger warnings for this series is under the cut. — Three-Body, Viki (also avail on YT) [started 02/19, paused on 02/26] Trigger warnings for this series is also under the cut. With that said, I have a very personal connection with Three-Body Problem, both the novel and the physics problem, so taking this show on has been my entire world. When it comes to tackling my watchlist, shows that have a substantial number of eps/seasons gets split into chunks, so that I can tackle them over a number of months. For this series, I divided the 30-epsiode series into three ten-episode parts that will take me from February to June. I’ll post an official review when I finish over the summer, but for now I will say I very much enjoy having my brain turn into goo after every ep. What an explosive first outing. I will be resuming this show in April for eps 11-20, where I’ll be reunited with my beloved war criminal.

Over the Moon, Netflix [watched on 2/10, DNF] So unfortunate that I started this and could not finish. I hope to get back into it in May, so I can talk about how beautiful it is. Gotta do it for Glen Keane. — Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang, Netflix [watched on 2/11] I…. I think I am going to let this quote from the film speak for me: “In the 60’s, when American astronauts landed on the moon, that was really good news, even in China. But I was sad because I thought I would never make it to space myself. But later on, I realized that art could be my space-time tunnel connecting me to the universe. If there was an opportunity, I would like to make a ladder into the clouds. But the purpose of this ladder wouldn’t be for me to go to space, it would be to encourage a back-and-forth, a dialogue.” I MEANN!!!! Yes, I did go into this film already aware of some of his works but I didn’t really know a lot about him. What I admired most was his joy and child-like wonder when he’s interacting with his art. I loved witnessing him act like he’s 7 yrs old again, especially in that air balloon scene. There’s also a moment when he’s become complacent in his projects, settling on the bare minimum to get a job done. When the art of creating is stripped of the art, what is left of Cai is very clear to the viewer: he is frustrated, he feels suffocated, he’s used. Alternately, towards the end of the film, he brings it back with “Yes, a lot of artists do things that are too commercial. It lacks some compulsive and sincere emotion that should exist in all art. Collaborating with [unknown artists] will always remind me of the pleasure I felt and my original purpose for doing art.” (Fascinating to compare his turmoil with the govt whilst working with Netflix.) All in all, this film did a great job telling a story about the magic in enduring passion projects over time. In this case, his Sky Ladder being a fourth attempt at a impossibly large scale dream project. I feel like my thoughts are all over the place with this film, but I’m still finding new things that really speak to me as an artist. — Your Name Engraved Herein, Netflix [watched on 2/18] I thought I had this gifset on my blog but it turns out I may have just DM’d @forcebook about this and didn’t rb, but anyways I saw this and thought hey this has the potential to ruin me lemme put it on my watchlist. And now over a year later, I finally got around to it. Well… it’s exactly what I ordered, it definitely ruined me. I mean, when they come at me with “Maybe more people would understand me in hell. Make it easy for me and help me go to hell,” what else am I supposed to be but ruined. I want a sequel, I need their reset.

There are more to add to the movies category, due to Oscar season, but I’ll save them for a separate post, with all my thoughts on the films/shorts I was able to catch, for Oscar weekend.

Ella Sings Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald with Ellis Larkins at the piano [first time listening] One hobby I picked up during the pandemic was growing my vinyl collection. I found this vinyl in 2022 with the intention of finding more from this era/genre. Not much movement since then, since vinyl purchases only happens once or twice a year. Suffice to say, I am so happy that the quality is still in tact and it makes me want to get back into vinyls soon. Current top 3: My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do), But Not For Me, and Soon — Wicked [relistening] One thing you need to understand about me is that Wicked was my first musical hyperfixation. I used to spend summers on the train to the city to catch the raffle drawings and when my name was picked, it would be the best $25 well spent to be seated front row. And when I was not in the city, the CD would be on repeat in the car on my long drives going to and from home and college. My introduction to YT was watching all of the bootleg clips of every casting. All the Eden Espenozas and Stephanie J Blocks and Kerry Ellis’. All the Kendra Kassenbaums, Megan Hiltys, and Annaleigh Ashfords. And yes, all the Aaron Tveits don’t look at me. I’ve seen almost all facets of this show enough times to start frankenstein-ing together my version of Wicked. All this to say that my love for this show remained dormant for over a decade, until the movie trailer for part one came out. And then *SPLASH* I immediately jump in head first into a slime tutorial just like that. Long ago, I watched Kara Lindsay’s broadway vlogs without having seen her Galinda and now I can say I have seen the light, she’s just as immaculate as I imagined she’d be.

Welcome to Night Vale [recurring/catching up] I typically catch up on this podcast seasonally, since I find that this show is more enjoyable when I binge it. This time around, I have fallen more behind and needed to catch up on 11 episodes. My favorite eps: A Car Crash on Buellton Avenue (Ep 232), Sister Cities: Vermillion Falls (Ep 239), and He is Holding a Knife (Ep 240). I will admit that there was a period of time, maybe four or five years ago, when I dropped the show for reasons I cannot recall now but I am glad that I stuck around.

And now here are some tw to keep in mind:

AFRICAN FOLKTALES trigger warnings: domestic violence/abuse, child abuse, attempt(s) of suicide, drowning, and miscarriage.

THREE-BODY trigger warnings: The plot centers around solving the mystery behind scientists committing suicide on an international scale. Scenes ranging from allusions, thoughts of suicide, to moderate depictions of suicide.

#oswlld 2024 wrap up #mine: edits #after dark #three body problem #high on the hog #african folktales reimagined #cai guo qiang #your name engraved herein #ella fitzgerald #wicked the musical #welcome to night vale #hope you all are doing okay over here <3 #will be back again soon miss youuu

[zegalba]

ISSEY MIYAKE: Pleats Please Guest Artist Seires (1994-1998)

No 1: Yasumasa Morimura — No 2: Nobuyoshi Araki No 3: Tim Hawkinson — No 4: Cai Guo-Qiang

#issey miyake #pleats please #guest artist #fashion #japan #yasumasa morimura #nobuyoshi araki #Tim Hawkinson #Cai Guo-Qiang #1994 #1998

[jareckiworld]

Wabyanko — Tribute to "The Sky Ladder" by Cai Guo-Qiang (acrylic on canvas, 2020)

#Wabyanko #french art #Cai Guo-Qiang #chinese art #Sky Ladder

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Cai Guo-Qiang, Day and Night Drawing - Wild Flowers, 2009,

Gunpowder on paper,

57.0 x 100.0 (cm) 22.4 x 39.4 (inch)

Courtesy of Eslite gallery

#art #abstracart #abstraction #abstract #cai guo-qiang #day and night #gunpowder #forms #eslite gallery #2009 #drawing

[strathshepard]

When the Sky Blooms with Sakura by Cai Guo-Qiang, commissioned by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. Watch here

#cai guo qiang #saint laurent #video #anthony vaccarello #blue #sakura

[2001hz]

Issey Miyake Pleats Please Guess Artist Series (1998), constructed by chinese artist: Cai Guo-Qiang

Pleats Please Guest Artist Series, a collaboration between Issey Miyake and up-and-coming artists. This time, in honor of the 'Forbidden State', gunpowder was exploded on clothes, and an abstract image of a dragon, which is a symbol of 'life' in China, was created on cloth using the latest printing technology. The efforts of the two, who are always seeking new creativity, resulted in a piece that considers further possibilities for fashion.

#issey miyake #issey miyake archive #pleats please #textile #fashion #design #cai guo qiang #1998 #china #japan #my scan