Cai Guoqiang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China in 1957. When Cai Guoqiang accepted the influence of traditional Chinese art form and Western literature, as a father's work, he was a traditional painter and calligrapher, working in a bookstore. Cai grew up during this period. This was during the social tension of the Cultural Revolution. As a teenager, Cai himself participated in the parade and various demonstrations. His memories and experiences of various forms of explosion, such as the fireworks of celebrations and artillery shells, have had a profound impact on his creativity and imagination. Creating art through the gunpowder explosion became his signature style. It can be said that he tried to use his art to describe the good and bad ways to use gunpowder.
"The Spring and Autumn of the Small Town" and "The Real Kung Fu of Shaolin" are Cai's two martial arts films in their teens and early twenties. Cai, fascinated by the influence of Western art form and its modernity, changed from 1981 to 1985 to the research stage design of Shanghai Theatre Academy. The knowledge he gained from this wave has an understanding of the various elements and practices of the stage. And the importance of teamwork, space arrangements and interaction.
In addition to experimenting with and using gunpowder to create his artwork, Tsai used bar graphs and oil painting abstract patterns during the 1985 New Wave. Later, when he moved to power in 1986, Cai moved to Japan.
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The theme and theme of Cai Guoliang's works come from various traditions, mainly oriental traditions; symbols, narratives and sciences, Chinese medicine, animals and plants, feng shui, landscape paintings, portraits, and most importantly fireworks. Cai draws on his artistic content from contemporary social issues, Eastern philosophy and Maoist sentiment. These contents are based on the date of the gunpowder drawings. These drawings explored Mao Zedong's tenet of "nothing but nothing".
When Tsai must work on a particular website, he often refers to the history and culture of that particular area or location. Cai has an important role in the context of Chinese contemporary art history because he is one of the few artists who contributed by starting to discuss Chinese art.
"Alien Project"
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With the advent of the 1990s, Cai began the "Alien Project." Cai used huge paths and huge gunpowder on this project, spanning huge surfaces and landscapes. These projects are usually site-specific and are carried out in different countries and locations around the world. As indicated in the project entitled "Extension of the Great Wall of China 10,000 Meters: Alien Project No. 10" [1993], the project involved the use of a 6-mile gunpowder fuse that was stretched at the western end. The Great Wall began in the Gobi Desert. After igniting the fuse, it burned for 15 minutes, forming a dragon-like pattern, a symbol of ancient Chinese mythology and imperial heritage. The inspiration behind the title of this series stems from Tsai's belief in creating beauty and happiness with the help of Earth conflicts, such as "material fuels" that achieve a higher perspective by celebrating pure energy.
Gunpowder works
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Cai hopes to break the monotony of social climate and the traditional Chinese art practice. These practices more control and inhibit the expression of art, which he realized with the help of gunpowder to create spontaneity. During his stay in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Mr. Cai conducted in-depth experiments on the nature of gunpowder in his works of art, before he was ready to explore a large number of explosives and "explosions." Due to artistic exchanges between the United States and Asian countries, an international organization called the Asian Cultural Commission was promoted in New York, and Cai moved to New York in 1995.
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