Exploding Art

WOW! This is what I saw looking up from where I was sitting at the Guggenheim Museum as I listened to the artist of this unique creation explain his work. Talk about up close and personal!

Using nine real cars, titled Inopportune: State One, this huge installation was designed to show the path of a car after it explodes from a car bomb and sitting underneath this powerful display you are instantly struck with how the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s newest exhibit, Cai Guo Qiang: I Want To Believe, is going to shake things up, in a good way.

  The director of the museum, Thomas Krens, calls this exhibit, featuring seven of Cai Guo Qiang’s large scale installations “the most ambitious physical installation ever done in the history of the Guggenheim”.  As you walk through the rotunda where this exhibit is displayed, spiraling up several floors, the artist says he hopes you are surprised and everything from his well known gunpowder drawings to his yak-skin boat where visitors are encouraged to make their own journey down a manmade riverbed,  gives you the feel you are seeing something truly unique and special. 

This is the Guggenheim’s first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist and the artist says his 80 different pieces have an underlying theme showing the contradiction between violence and beauty focusing on tolerance, on not always trying to solve the problem but to tolerate contradictions. 

The exhibit will be displayed at the Guggenheim through the end of March, so if you’re looking to experience something disturbingly beautiful, stop by and check it out. 

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