CAI GUO QIANG
I particularly like Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosion art as it shows duality of exhilaration and destruction. Using gunpowder as his medium, he creates beauty from destruction. After creating his scene with scattered gunpowder and pre-cut stencils, he ignites them and this creates a sort of controlled randomness – organized chaos – in his art.
He also describes his process as to making love: “You can try to steer it, but you can’t. It’s like making love. It’s very in the moment. And there should be no regret.” The process of making these drawings are publicly displayed, and I feel that there is much appreciation in the process of making art.
CLOSE UP OF THE MARK OF 921
Also, in Cai Guo-Qiang’s drawings at up close, you can see that there are much details and randomness, yet it can portray the emotions of pain.
In relation to assignment 1, I am looking into his artwork in smaller pictures and seeing how it portray emotions.