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Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese Artist
Born: Dec 8, 1957
Art Me People Society Work Would
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For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see. Cai Guo-Qiang
Art Time World We Cannot See Most Common Cannot Theme Using Search Things
Only individual creativity can bring about real social development. Cai Guo-Qiang
Creativity About Only Individual Development Real Social Social Development Bring
Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself. Cai Guo-Qiang
Myself Liberate Medium Way Gunpowder Became Using
Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free. Cai Guo-Qiang
Politics Art Sometimes Political Free Become Society Tool More Open Make Climate Political Climate Should Help
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder. Cai Guo-Qiang
Good Language Looking Luck Other Good Luck Visual Gunpowder Had Environment Boundary Beyond Always Goes Nations Reason Exposed Chose Found
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books. Cai Guo-Qiang
Me World Mother Father Closed Society Side Books Those Though Classic Brought Window Windows Unseen Invisible Another Were Western Chinese Grandmother Really Explore Even Two
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself. Cai Guo-Qiang
Myself Father Young Painting Deliberately Could Feel Traditional Existed Want Wanted Separate
I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently. Cai Guo-Qiang
Life Work Sometimes Finished Own Believe Every Independently Charisma Expect Artwork Different Lives
I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control. Cai Guo-Qiang
Control Everything Prone Rational Tend Cautious Keep
In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China. Cai Guo-Qiang
Art People Try Own Possibilities Kind See Some My Own More Voice Open Another Enable Effort Personal China Chinese Chinese People Use
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era. Cai Guo-Qiang
Work Natural People Out Born Poignant Simpler Era Times Any Serendipity
Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider. Cai Guo-Qiang
World Thought Feeling Country Closed Though Characteristic Totally About Had Outsider Talking Always Doing Western Very Western World Anxious Different After Center China Japan Japanese Themselves Ethnic View Even Different View
I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown. Cai Guo-Qiang
Too Much Power Energy Too Enough Would Gunpowder Silk More Throughout Put Between Always May Holes Much Should Less Shown

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