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"The Great Animal Orchestra" opens at the Fondation Cartier
Dates: July 2, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Venue: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Curator: Hervé Chandès
Cai Guo-Qiang created White Tone, a gunpower drawing of 18 meters in length, specifically for the exhibition The Great Animal Orchestra at the Fondation Cartier. This work displays wild animals of different species gathered around a watering hole in a moment of peace and vulnerability.
Installation view of White Tone at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2016.
Photo by Luc Boegly, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.
"Cai Guo-Qiang: My Stories of Painting" at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
Dates: September 30, 2016 - January 5, 2017
Venue: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
My Stories of Painting is the first exhibition that will focus on Cai's long journey of painting in terms of two parallel paths. The first traces his decades of restless exploration in painting, presenting over a hundred works from different periods, of varying scale, and across various mediums — many of which are shown for the first time.
Poppy Series: Hallucination No. 1, 2015. Gunpowder on canvas; set of four panels, 183 x 608 overall.
Photo by Lydia Ohl, courtesy Cai Studio