Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, opens at the Guggenheim on Friday February 22, 2008.
This best selling contemporary Chinese artist's mid-career retrospective looks like its going big. Cai Guo-Qiang's theatrical artworks adapts well to the Guggenheim's unique architecture. I saw bits of the show as it was being installed and cannot wait for the actual opening. As I walked into the mueusem's central atrium, Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One—an installation depicting a car bomb sequence—literally exploded in front of me. The nine Ford Tauruses suspended in the rotunda led my eye straight up, where I saw Inopportune: Stage Two and Head On circling the museum's galleries. How could I not get excited? Cars stuck with dazzling light tubes, a pack of dire wolves crashing against a glass wall, and tigers covered with arrows somersaulting through the air.
If my description of the show sounds a bit campy to you, let me tell you that it's certainly in-tents.
Watch the museum install Inopportune: Stage One.
Don't go now, wait for the show to open to get your money's worth.
The Guggenheim Museum is located at 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street.
$18 general admission
$15 students and seniors
free for members and children under 12
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