Cai Guo-Qiang: Moving Ghost Town

August 9–October 5, 2014

Aspen Art Museum

Installation view of Moving Ghost Town and explosion event Black Lightning. Commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, August 2, 2014, 2014.

Photo by Tony Prikryl, Aspen Art Museum. Courtesy Cai Studio

Moving Ghost Town
2014
Three African Sulcata tortoises, iPads, wood, rock, and edible plants
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Aspen Art Museum
[Artwork Not Extant]

Installation views at the Aspen Art Museum, 2014.

Photo by Lydia Ohl, courtesy Cai Studio

Black Lightning
2014
Realized at Ajax Mountain, Aspen, Colorado, August 2, 2:30 p.m., approximately 3 seconds
600 black smoke PixelBurst™ Aerial shells
Commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum [Ephemeral]

Photo by Tony Prikryl, Aspen Art Museum. Courtesy Cai Studio.