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Uffizi Galleries to Host Solo Exhibition of Contemporary Artist Cai Guo-Qiang
Dates: November 20, 2018 - February 17, 2019
Venue: The Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy
The Uffizi Galleries are honored to announce contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s latest solo exhibition, Flora Commedia, opening on November 20, 2018. The exhibition is co-curated by Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi, together with Laura Donati, curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Uffizi Galleries. The exhibition draws its title from the Divina Commedia by Florentine poet Dante. The artist engages the flora of the Renaissance as his subject matter, capturing the spirit and soul of the period; through painting flowers, Cai Guo-Qiang is painting nature, the cosmos and personal emotions.
Cai Guo-Qiang, Detail of I Modi, 2018. Gunpowder on canvas, 300 x 1050 cm.
Photo by Yvonne Zhao, courtesy Cai Studio
Color Mushroom Cloud
Realized above the former CP-1 site, University of Chicago, December 2, 3:25 pm. Color comets and PixelBurst™ Aerial shells, 75 meters tall. Commissioned by UChicago Arts and the Smart Museum of Art.
Cai Guo-Qiang's daytime explosion event Color Mushroom Cloud reflects on the 75th anniversary of the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction. Organized and curated by Laura Steward, the Curator of Public Art and Director of the Open Practice Committee.
"Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" releases on Netflix
Netflix Launching Date: October 14, 2016
In his latest feature documentary, Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (One Day In September, The Last King Of Scotland) has unfettered access to world-renowned contemporary artist, Cai Guo-Qiang. Told through the artist’s own words and those of family, friends, colleagues, and critics, Sky Ladder traces Cai’s meteoric rise from childhood in Mao’s China to pre-eminent global artist. We witness as Cai struggles with how to affect social change through art, and navigate the compromises and complexities that arise when you’ve made it to the top. When you’ve gone as far as he has, how do you challenge yourself?
Watch on Netflix.com