Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
2017
Format
Other
Exhibition Event Title
Third Space
Date of Exhibition Event
2017
Location of Exhibition Event
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Group/Movement
Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2: ink and gunpowder on paper Drawing for The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century: Gunpowder, ink, and dried Lingzhi mushrooms on paper, twenty-page folding album
Description
In 2017 the Guggenheim hosted an exhibition called Art and China after 1989. Cai Guo-Qiang was included in a subsection of this exhibition called 'Third Space" where his works "Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2" and "Drawing for The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century". In both of these works the artist uses materials salient to ancient Chinese history and culture to question the role of violence and technology in the modern day. (Nicole Wang '26)
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2017Guggenheim2.JPG (2322 kB)
2017Guggenheim1.JPG (2227 kB)
