Sunday, April 06, 2008

Those are wolves. Crashing head on into a glass panel! That was not meant to sound sadistic, dear readers. It's just that it's so exciting! Check out the WHOLE installation. I like! A LOT!

HEAD ON is the title of this totally amazing installation art piece by Cai Guo-Qiang, a China-born, New York based artist who is the epitome of AWESOME.

''In this tableau, a pack of 99 life-sized wolves gallops at full force toward a transparent glass wall, leaping through the air in a unified arc, only to collide head on into the unyielding barrier. The wall—first realized to the exact height and thickness of the Berlin Wall—represents society's tendency to search only for the obvious, missing instead what may not be immediately evident but ultimately more dangerous. In Cai's artistic iconography, wolves possess a ferocity and courageousness similar to tigers and achieve heroism through their collective unity. In this installation, however, their cohesiveness leads to their ultimate downfall. Here, through the emblematic imagery of wolves, Cai intends to address the human fallibility of following any collective ideology too blindly and humankind's fate to repeat mistakes unthinkingly.'' -Michelle Yun (an excerpt from Guggenheim Museum's website)

His other works are equally stunning both in visual and conceptual terms. Get this-a tiger pierced with numerous arrows, cars with multichannel light tubes sticking out of them suspended from the ceiling, and gunpowder drawings...all part of his exhibition, called I WANT TO BELIEVE-now on at the Guggenheim Museum. IN NEW YORK. We were there last year! The Richard Prince Spiritual America exhibition was going on at that time though. It was good too but this I'd kill to see with my own two eyes. This guy is too cool.


6:28 PM;

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