Cai Guo-Qiang Wants to Believe

The first Multi TRaC outing is to the Guggenheim Museum to see I WANT TO BELIEVE, an exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

Check out the online catalog of the show by clicking this link.

Pictured at the right is Inopportune: Stage One, 2004. (Materials: Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes, dimensions variable.)

The Guggenheim Catalog states:

Cai's focus on sociopolitical issues, especially relating to acts of terrorism, has become a central feature of his work since 9/11. The most overt example, Inopportune: Stage One, simulates the trajectory of an exploding automobile tumbling through space, offering up the contradiction between a spectator's abhorrence of violence and attraction to the abstract beauty of some violent images.

There's a cool video about how they installed the cars here.

High 5 always has tickets for Guggenheim shows, so anytime you want to take some people there, just shoot us an email.

enjoy!

~eric