{"id":290,"date":"2022-03-24T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/?p=290"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:10:13","slug":"light-artist-cai-guo-qiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/hxu2\/light-artist-cai-guo-qiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Artist &#8211; Cai Guo-Qiang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cai Guo-Qiang is not the only artist who plays with fireworks, but he truly brings firework installations to another level. He uses fireworks to create large-scale, outdoor explosion arts that are not only spectacular to look at but also full of strong subtext. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"374px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/L0LbE0DsHci4wGZ7bAkSeVpz6zniBCr6dKxHAv-f9m8-aMEb5ka4IPgY-Nzr043d0qpEnMX4so9Kq7vEW3BcX_pCNMUMo9wK2wsPFhvgd7XfVCqXnBb7NV9pddRGee1pu9BGGE2v04W8\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A self-portrait of Cai made from fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"480px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/EPl6DVNTtclf7izZnOxYhlgNkOvByHNylFitp0-WsZDvfSi3AKJq8iOqRv9GU1egtXiZFE6YePbQf3owmehCKSkwjoTbUi7kr8udiSvgyS3tUYS6122lZomhMVPtF3eRIL3ReFwYFsjO\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transient Rainbow &#8211; 2002 Commissioned by MoMA to celebrate the opening of MoMA Queens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"372px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/Y5Vzyb1Z-HSEMlAhqQ3JZMqEH0-dF7TuPEtkSEUg45Y6GEdxH2GmFSfuhTsNYaPCwC-gFGZzE0buKVM6xLCutNdI-E08KYA3-won7bEi4Ztf_zMd8hIdwqqKpJrfmEKUjI7mmj5PAVUG\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fallen Blossoms &#8211; 2009 In Philadelphia Museum of Art <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My personal favorites of his works are the ones that involve staircases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"438px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/OMwPn11DTtv23_2UeHWBYxMjc3J8H45ZfF98lV6RW4Q3RzJNAOJnYpU_ZdzjJ7vg0m-mRmHOJUdXUwllKC4kJ8MXqy9I1jD2ecBrUPwJkvGGzdvkkIGSUs9STpLooJ8Q7CR7K5ARluLt\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ascending a staircase &#8211; 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cai did some smaller-scale attempts back in the late 90s. Using around 20 years, he managed to finish the world&#8217;s largest single installation at the time, the Sky Ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"368px;\" height=\"508px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/pJHJLlv66dk_rieDAW-cnsiNiazlGogbXUXpqNBiI5bY9R_hJ5NKq-gjgciNcHQ4Dt7NlbxpTIdDYwTB0KyDCQ2m0Kc8KySfDVoRTVJlD6JCswsbtVBjXGYiYw7uehS_Kkiu1hLhA5uL\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sky Ladder &#8211; 2015    500 x 5.5 m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realized at his hometown, Quanzhou, Sky Ladder was Cai&#8217;s gift to his 100-year-old grandmother. It is also Cai&#8217;s dream, connecting the Earth and the Universe through his art, come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eBOmyywLM8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caiguoqiang.com\/\">HOME<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;HOME&#8221; &#8212; Cai Guo-Qiang\" src=\"https:\/\/caiguoqiang.com\/embed\/#?secret=2eLYdxGwfa#?secret=eBOmyywLM8\" data-secret=\"eBOmyywLM8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80097472<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cai Guo-Qiang is not the only artist who plays with fireworks, but he truly brings firework installations to another level. He uses fireworks to create large-scale, outdoor explosion arts that are not only spectacular to look at but also full of strong subtext. A self-portrait of Cai made from fireworks. Transient Rainbow &#8211; 2002 Commissioned&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/hxu2\/light-artist-cai-guo-qiang\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}