Controlled Spontaneity: Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang
By Michael Young

Cai Guo-Qiang in front of his work Heritage (2013) commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery
Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang has been making his signature gunpowder works for over 20 years. In 2008, he was commissioned to create Footprints of History (2008), a dazzling firework arrangement that traversed the Beijing sky during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.