Art History and Museum as Medium
Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium. Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) is, quite literally, one of ...
Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium
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Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium, 24th October 2019 at the Ashmolean Museum Celebrating the opening of the Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum a symposium with experts from the Ashmolean, the University of Oxford, eminent art historians, as well as the artist himself was held on the 24th of October 2019. Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) is, is an internationally established artist who has lived, worked and exhibited around the world. He is best known as the Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he treated awestruck viewers to possibly the greatest fireworks show in history. His practice ranges over painting and drawing, video, installation and performance. Please Note: Not all talks in the conference were filmed.
In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii
Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium. Jerome Neutres is an independent curator, who earlier in 2019 curated th...
Cai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco
Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. The talk will be considering Cai's work of that tit...
Yi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns
Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. Arrows, fire, and gunpowder were ...
Two Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan
Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium. Lena Fritsch is the Curator of...
Cai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle
David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium. In this paper I'll suggest some of ...
Context and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work
David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium. Abstract: Begi...
Welcome and Introduction
Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium.