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Sculpture working

June 1, 2005 at 11:54 pm | In yulelogStories | 3 Comments

This past weekend I came upon Sculpture Magazine, new to me. Inside the May issue is an interview with Cai Guo-Qiang, whose work strikes me as fantastically disturbing, attractive, thoughtful, and magical.

No, it’s not all flying tigers shot through with arrows, like this:

… His other work, describing …consumption?, interchange? — it’s as disturbing.

Here’s a photo from Dream

…which features blood-ghost appliances and cars and missiles and all the junk we make and sell.

And here’s one from Art Shopping Network,

which makes you wonder what’s being netshopped.

There’s an exhibition of his work at MassMoCA (till October 2005). If I still lived in Boston, a day trip to North Adams would be on my agenda for sure…