The 7th Hiroshima Art Prize: Cai Guo-Qiang

October 25, 2008–January 12, 2009

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

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.