I came across the work of Cai Guo-Qiang recently, when researching my paper on Andrea Zittel. He was also in the art:21 PBS documentary that I rented. I had seen an exhibit of his a few years back at the National Gallery in DC, and then his work seemed to be so specialized in fireworks-- both the displays and the patterns created by exploding gunpowder on paper. I thought, and still think, that all that was mindblowing, but its interesting to see this stuff, too...
I really liked this installation with the cars. I think he had said that it had been initially inspired by terrorism...
and then i liked this one because it was so different from the cars, but (obviously) with a common strain...
