Nontransparent Monument (Stele 4)
2006 · One from a series of five ink rubbings
composition (irreg.): 61 13/16 x 51 3/16" (157 x 130 cm); sheet (irreg.): 69 5/16 x 51 9/16" (176 x 131 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese, 1957
Installation ArtContemporary
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10
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21
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3
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- • Contemporary
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Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese artist born in 1957 known for large-scale installations and performances that employ gunpowder, explosives, and pyrotechnics as primary materials. His work engages with ideas of destruction, transformation, and the sublime through carefully orchestrated detonations that leave charred marks on paper, walls, and architectural surfaces. Operating across drawing, sculpture, and ephemeral event-based practice, he treats explosive force as both medium and metaphor for historical rupture and cultural collision.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, US
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