CAI GUO-QUIANG: MAKING A GUNPOWDER PAINTING
Video Installation for Odyssey and Homecoming at the Palace Museum in Beijing, 2020.
Editor. Directed by Rachel Rivenc.
Through his trademark artistic process, Cai intricately patterns gunpowder and explodes it on canvas: a fiery event that leaves painterly residues. Rather than division and isolation, the explosion and the paintbrush coalesce in Cai’s monumental works to advance cultural exchange and shared understanding beyond nationality.
In 2021, the Palace Museum exhibited Odyssey and Homecoming, Cai Guo-Qiang’s largest exhibition of painting to date, assembling approximately 180 of his signature gunpowder paintings and other works, including the artist's first VR project.
