Cai Guo-Qiang accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work of Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The catalogue presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artists creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: gunpowder drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibition site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, the publication illuminates Cais significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. The fully illustrated catalogue features essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon andWang Hui, along with some sixty documented plate entries.

Ephemeral and monumental, the work of Cai Guo-Qiang borrows elements from both Chinese culture and Western art. This is the catalogue of his show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

A tribute to the Chinese artist's ambitious, internationally celebrated work.

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. United Arab Emirates Oil & Gas Sector Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 July - 25 September 2005, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 July - 11 September, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 29 July 2005.

Throughout his career, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957) has used the motif of the boat to represent the exchange of knowledge across cultures. In his latest monograph, A Clan of Boats, Guo-Qiang gathers his use of the motif into a single compilation and speaks for the first time about the many works he has created with boats throughout the course of his artistic career. "I am actually a vessel myself," he writes in this volume; "I left home a long time ago, the centuries-old harbor city of Quanzhou. I sailed to Shanghai first, and then to Tokyo, New York, and the rest of the world, further and further, shuttling between different ports, different natural sceneries, cultures, and histories." The book includes an essay written by art critic Karen Smith and two interviews (conducted ten years apart) by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

El artista presenta eventos en los que realiza explosiones de pólvora, material vinculado a la historia de China y que él utiliza como elemento principal de su arte, sin pretender asociarlo a la idea de destrucción o violencia sino a su función original de comunicación. La exposición hace un recorrido por varios de dichos eventos, y muestra también dibujos realizados con pólvora, haciendo referencia al intercambio intercultural, la espiritualidad (especialmente relacionada con la filosofía oriental), y el poder de la naturaleza, utilizando metáforas -como el arco iris recreado con humo negro como alegoría de los ataques terroristas que sufre nuestra sociedad- que crean una universalidad poética.