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  • Nov 25, 2013

Controlled Spontaneity: Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang

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.