This guy, artist Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡國強), is a genius. Aaron and I went to a new retrospective of his work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum a couple of weeks ago. It was awesome. Cai does much of his work with gunpowder, creating detailed sketches and paintings with different varieties of explosives and carefully igniting it to create moody, smoky, serendipitous, often nature-inspired art. He also designed the fireworks for the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies. And can paint and make relief sculptures and jacuzzi-centric conceptual art, too.
Thanks to Mayuri and Dmitri for recommending we check out his work!
