While Cai Guo-Qiang’s “daytime fireworks” shattered the sky with jet black puffs of choreographed blasts outside, the solo exhibit at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar played Silk Road, bridging Asia and the Middle East… with explosive results. Highlight: Fragile, a porcelain mural scripted with Arabic calligraphy in gunpowder. Boom. Read more »
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has created his largest display of “daytime fireworks” in three years, detonating 8,300 microchip-equipped shells at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. See fire, smoke and explosions hanging in the air like so many colorful bits of cloud and jet back ink-stains. Read more »
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- Robot mimicking the work of Jackson Pollock
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- Robot imitating the art of Damien Hirst
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- Robot imitating Yves Klein’s living brush
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- A rickshaw pulling robot built by Wu Yulu
And the three most robot-replaceable artists are: Jackson Pollock, Damien Hirst and Yves Klein. Aside from artist robo-doppelgängers, Cai Guo-Qiang and Wu Yulu’s current exhibit at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai features a creepy toddler robot for all your co-dependent, procreative needs. Read more »
Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »
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