Cai Guo-Qiang
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Politically charged mixed media work Art Work
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Cai Guo-Qiang |
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Male |
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Quanzhou City, Fujian, China |
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Chinese |
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1957 |
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Quick Facts
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Politically charged mixed media work |
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Artist
Curator
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Biography
| Guo-Qiang is a contemporary artist and curator. Cai Guo-Qiang draws on a wide variety of symbols, narratives, traditions and materials such as fengshui, Chinese medicine, dragons, roller coasters, computers, vending machines, wildlife, portraiture, non-Han Chinese citizens and their cultures, fireworks and gunpowder. He gained international attention in 2008 when he designed the firework production for the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games. |
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