Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, 1991. Seven gunpowder drawings. Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as folding screens. These gunpowder drawings are, from left to the right, front to the back: Fetus Movement II: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 9 (1991), Rebuilding the Berlin Wall: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 7 (1991), Inverted Pyramid on the Moon: Project for Humankind No. 3 (1991), Reviving the Ancient Signal Towers: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 8 (1990), A Certain Lunar Eclipse: Project for Humankind No. 2 (1991), The Vague Border at the Edge of Time/Space Project (1991) and Bigfoot’s Footprints: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 6 (1990). Installation dimensions variable. Collection of the artist and various private and public collections.
Installation views at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2000. Photos courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
1990
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 680 cm overall
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Private collection
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1991
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 680 cm overall
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1991
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as seven-panel folding screen
200 x 595 cm overall
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1990
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 680 cm overall
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Fetus Movement II: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 9
1990
Gunpowder and ink on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel folding screen
200 x 680 cm overall
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
1990
Gunpowder and ink on paper, 24-page folding album
33 x 318.5 cm opened
San Diego Museum of Art
Photo by Wataru Kai, courtesy Cai Studio.
Book Signing Event, 2000. Realized at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, April 4, 2000, 2 seconds. Gunpowder on 200 exhibition catalogues. Explosion area approximately 200 x 500 cm. Commissioned by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain [Ephemeral]
Photo courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.