Cai Guo-Qiang: Impromptu

December 14, 2014–March 8, 2015

Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires

Life is a Milonga, 2014. Ceramic figurines, music boxes, bar stools, acrylic swings and motors. Dimensions variable.

Installation views at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2014. Photos by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio.

Sala 2

Exhibition views at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2014. Photos by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio.

The Town of Eternal Slumber
2014
Gunpowder on paper
300 x 1200 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Sentinels of the Enchanted Valley
2014
Gunpowder on paper
300 x 1600 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Agua Grande
2014
Gunpowder on paper
300 x 1600 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Traces of Vine
2014
Gunpowder on canvas, two panels
630 x 174 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Sala 3

Impromptu, 2014. Installation incorporating 6 gunpowder paintings on canvas. Dimensions variable.

Installation views at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2014. Photos by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio.

Impromptu No. 1
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
350 x 144 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Impromptu No. 2
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
350 x 144 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Impromptu No. 3
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
275 x 127 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Impromptu No. 4
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
275 x 127 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Impromptu No. 5
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
275 x 127 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Impromptu No. 6
2014
Gunpowder on canvas
315 x 174 cm

Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Bookshop

Vine
2014
Terracotta, gunpowder, steel bars, wire
Dimensions variable

Installation views at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2014.

Photos by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio.

Danger Book: Suicide Fireworks (Exploded Prototype)
2007
Gunpowder, rice paste, and matches on paper, 48-page handmade artist book
75 x 102.8 x 2 cm opened. 75 x 51.4 x 2 cm closed
Prototype. Edition size: 9 unique books, proofs: 2 AP (1 exploded, 1 unexploded), 1 Prototype. Individually titled and signed by the artist. Edition commissioned by Ivory Press, 2008.

Installation views at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2014.

Photo by Santiago Porter, courtesy Fundación PROA.