Cai says he owes a debt to his grandmother, who came to the rescue during his first experiments with gunpowder ... video and performance art, his work is internationally renowned, with accolades ...

A new documentary film on the artist, Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang, released on Netflix ... opens with Cai reflecting on the history of gunpowder, one of China’s most significant ...

The restlessly inventive artist Cai Guo-Qiang is known for his radical experimentation with materials—especially gunpowder, which he has used to ignite his drawings and to stage explosive events ...

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang uses gunpowder to create two kinds of art. First, there is a performance event where Cai ignites gunpowder on huge canvases. Marked by the explosion, the new canvases ...

A volatile substance, gunpowder is “epic and ... appeared as part of Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century series, below. “Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming” is on view at the ...

Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist renowned for his ... While living in Japan between 1986 and 1995, Cai began experimenting with gunpowder as an art material. He currently lives and works ...

A PST Art exhibition of Cai’s work, “Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey,” is running at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. It explores Cai’s long history of working with gunpowder and ...

Cai says he owes a debt to his grandmother, who came to the rescue during his first experiments with gunpowder ... video and performance art, his work is internationally renowned, with accolades ...