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CAI QI

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 7, 2023
The world’s premier explosion artist buttons up for Tokyo
Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Ramble in the Cosmos ― From ‘Primeval Fireball’ Onward” at the National Art Center, Tokyo gives the artist’s fans something to linger over.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 19, 2020
She was a Communist Party insider in China. Then she denounced Xi.
Cai Xia is among a cluster of Chinese dissenters who have recently decried Xi's policies, including his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2019
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Beijing officials confirm Olympic cooperation for 2020 and 2022
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and top officials in Beijing confirmed Monday that they will cooperate over the upcoming Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 19, 2017
New Beijing chief vows to finally win fight against pollution
Beijing's new top official vowed to tackle the city's smog problem, a simmering cause of discontent among China's expanding middle class.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2016
Reconnecting Japan's ancient cultural hub
"When I visited Todaiji Temple in Nara, just after I arrived as a Chinese student in Japan about 30 years ago, I felt somehow nostalgic as it had an atmosphere of old China," says Cai Guo-Qiang, as he explains his work for Culture City of East Asia 2016, Nara, a cultural project that launched in March. "I think that Todaiji is a symbol of cultural exchange between Japan and China, which crossed over the ocean by ships, bringing Buddhism, technology and culture as well as goods such as silk or ceramics. That's why I wanted to build a ship here to remind us of our close relationship in ancient time."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 11, 2015
There's a residual energy to Cai Guo-Qiang's explosive works
Japanese artist Taro Okamoto once said, "Art is an explosion." This was despite the fact that his own works were carefully planned and developed, as the exhibition "Taro Okamoto's Paintings: From Impulse to Realization" at the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art made clear back in 2006. Okamoto's famous dictum, however, literally applies to the New-York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who is famous for using gunpowder explosions to distribute colors and other effects across his expansive canvases.

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