Black Fireworks: Project for Hiroshima, 2008. Realized at Motomachi Riverside Park near the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, October 25, 2008, 1:00 p.m, 60 seconds. Black smoke shells. Commissioned by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art [Ephemeral]
Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
Installation views at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Unmanned Nature: Project for the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2008
Gunpowder on paper and water pond
400 x 4500 cm
Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
Unmanned Garden
2008
Boat, sand, and flowers
Installation views at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.
Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition views at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.
1) Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art 2) Photo by Cai Guo-Qiang, courtesy Cai Studio.
Black Fireworks: Project for Hiroshima
2008
Gunpowder on paper
305.43 x 403.22 cm
Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
Clear Sky Black Cloud: Project for The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2006
Gunpowder on paper
303 x 404 cm
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
The Earth Has Its Black Hole Too: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 16
1994
Gunpowder and ink on paper
63.3 x 55 cm
Photo by Daxin Wu, courtesy Cai Studio.
Installation views at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Photo by Cai Guo-Qiang, courtesy Cai Studio.
Nontransparent Monument
2006
Green limestone
274.3 x 970.3 cm
Photo by Teresa Christiansen, courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Move Along, Nothing to See Here
2006
Painted resin with sharp objects confiscated at airport security checkpoints
Installation dimensions variable. Crocodiles: 241.3 x 132.1 x 406.4 cm and 228.6 x 116.8 x 426.7 cm
Detail, installation view at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006.
Photo by Teresa Christiansen, courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century
2008 (1996)
Five prints documenting explosion events realized at various sites in the United States, February–April, 1996, approximately 3 seconds each. Venues featured in this selection: Nevada Test Site, February 13; Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada, February 14; Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, February 15; Looking Toward Manhattan April 20–21, at various sites near Manhattan, New York City, New York. Photos by Hiro Ihara, Courtesy Cai Studio.
5 lambda prints, 157.5 x 225 cm each
Limited Edition of 100
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.