Day and Night, 2009. Gunpowder on paper, 300 x 3200 cm.
Photo by Leung Yui Chuen
Cultural Melting Bath: Project for the 20th Century, 1997. 18 Taihu rocks, hot tub with hydrotherapy jets, bathwater infused with herbs, and pine trees. Installation dimensions variable. Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
Inopportune: Stage One, 2004. Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes. Dimensions variable.
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
Taipei’s Rent Collection Courtyard, 2009. Realized at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. 73 life-sized sculptures created on site by Long Xu Li and four guest artisan sculptors, clay, wire and wood armature, and other props and tools for sculpture, five spinning night lamps, facsimile photocopies of documents and photographs related to the Rent Collection Courtyard (dated 1965). Life-sized sculptures. [Artwork Not Extant]
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
2004
Nine life-sized tiger replicas, arrows, and mountain stage prop. Tigers: papier-mâché, plaster, fiberglass, resin, and painted hide; arrows: brass, threaded bamboo shaft, and feathers; and stage prop: Styrofoam, wood, canvas, and acrylic paint
Dimensions variable
Collection of Kröller-Müller Museum
Installation view at Shawinigan Space, National Gallery of Canada, Québec, 2006.
Photo courtesy the National Gallery of Canada.
Painting of One Hundred Tigers
1993
Handscroll, ink on paper mounted on silk
45.6 x 670 cm
Cai Guo-Qiang Collection
Installation view at Shawinigan Space, National Gallery of Canada, Québec, 2006.
Photo by Kazuo Ono, courtesy Cai Studio.
2005
Gunpowder on paper
200 x 300 cm
Private collection
Photo courtesy Eslite Gallery (Cherng Piin).
2004
Three-channel video installation (1 minute and 37 seconds, loop, videography by John Borst, edited by Lauren Petty), car, and spent fireworks
Dimensions variable upon installation. Approximately 150 cm
Seattle Art Museum
Installation view at MASS MoCA, North Adams, 2005.
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
Head On
2006
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
99 life-sized replicas of wolves and glass wall. Wolves: gauze, resin, and hide
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG
Benesse Art Site Naoshima Collection
Installation view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2009.
©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2009. Photo: Erika Barahona-Ede.
2006
9 minutes and 2 seconds, loop
Two-channel video installation
Installation dimensions variable
Edition of 5. Deutsche Bank Collection (1/5) and Collection of the Artist
Installation view of exhibition copy at the the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2008.
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
Reflection—A Gift from Iwaki, 2004. Excavated wooden boat and porcelain. Installation dimensions variable. Boat: 500 x 500 x 1500 cm. Private Collection.
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
2009
Granite
Approximately 100 x 400 x 380 cm
Installation view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009.
Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
2008
Gunpowder on porcelain
66.83 x 37.31 x 5.72 cm
Edition size: 20 (1/20 to 20/20), proofs: 3 AP (AP-1 to AP-3), 1 Prototype
Individually signed and numbered by the artist
Collection of the artist, various private collections
Edition 15/20, 2008.
Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.
Exhibition view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009. Photo by On-Works International Multimedia Co., Ltd.
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 eight-panel folding screen
200 x 680 cm overall
Photo by André Morin, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
2007
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as six-panel screen
233 x 463.8 cm overall
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
2007
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as eight-panel screen
230 x 620 cm overall
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
1989
Gunpowder and ink on paper
240 x 300 cm
Private collection
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
2008
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as six-panel folding screen
230 x 462 cm overall
Photo by I-Hua Lee, courtesy Cai Studio.
1998
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as six-panel screen
218.5 x 450 cm overall
Private collection
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
1991
Ink on paper
29.5 x 47 cm
Private collection
Photo by Chang Guan-Hao, courtesy Cai Studio.
1989
Gunpowder on paper
212.8 x 154.3 cm
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
2008
Gunpowder on paper
400 x 300 cm
Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio.
1989
Gunpowder, oil, and paper pulp on canvas
61 x 73 x 3 cm
Photo by Imamura Kaoru.
1985
Gunpowder, oil, and ink on canvas
155 x 150 cm
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
1985
Oil on canvas
78 x 100 cm
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
1985–86
Gunpowder, ink, candle wax, and oil on canvas, mounted on wood
155 x 300 cm
Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
Self-Portrait: A Subjugated Soul
1985/89
Gunpowder and oil on canvas
167 x 118 cm
Collection of Leo Shih
Photo courtesy Cai Studio
Taroko Gorge, 2009. Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as an 18-panel folding screen, 250 x 1800 cm.
Photo by Leung Yui Chuen