"Inopportune: Stage One" (2004) - Guggenheim Museum - 5th Ave. bw. E88th & E89th - map it here
You still have 3 days to run to the Guggenheim Museum to see I Want to Believe, the retrospective of the works of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Hurry up: it closes on the 28th!!
In the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, seven white cars are suspended as if they were flipping down into the space, with neon sparks flashing in different colors. It is full or energy, motion, colors, lights, noises, explosion. It is shocking, extravagant, powerful, amazing and just so fascinating.
There's much more to see. If you're intrigued, take a look at The New York Times slideshow of the exhibition, its accompanying article and a video showing how Cai Guo-Qiang creates his gunpowder drawings:
• Cai Guo-Qiang - I Want to Believe: slideshow of the exhibition
• NYT article: Cars and Gunpowder and Plenty of Noise
• NYT video: Creative Sparks
9 comments:
great, this is the nice parking lot of the future;)
Wow! That is what you call an art installation! Very cool, you've captured it so well :)
awesome, i love these shots--almost makes up for not being there in person to see it
Like Marlow's comment ;-)
Looks like a perfect space for such a WOW show. What would FLW think of it? It must have been quite something to watch it being hung. Love the sparks . . . great post with the extra links, Eliane.
toujours aussi surprenante ces expositions ;o)
une exposition qui vous met la tête à l'envers
Wow...! I would be afraid to walk underneath.
Thank you all. Merci beaucoup.
I wished you could have all been there. It is much more impressive to see this "in person". A great use of that space. I would think that FLW would approve. He was a bit on the crazy side, you know. ;)
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