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Bad Art Night à la Cai Guo-Qiang Ain’t Happenin’

As a matter of transparency for the Gallery I want to share with you a project which will most likely remain unrealized. As I have been planning out future Bad Art Nights, I came up with an awesome idea (if I says so myself) that would have been perfectly timely for July. We would all make drawings using fireworks in the style of Cai Guo-Qiang. Cai Guo-Qiang works in a variety of media but is best known for his use of gunpowder and fireworks. Of his choice of gunpowder, he stated, “there are countries where you have trouble finding oil paint, but I have always been able to find gunpowder wherever I went.” The following videos should give you an idea of what I had planned and why the Fire Marshal nixed it.

Light Cycle

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Seasons

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Black Rainbow in Edinburgh

More videos at the Asia Society and Art:21 (Warning: the Art:21 site uses Real Player which is an awful program. If you already have it installed, then enjoy the videos. If not, you can install it, but I don’t recommend it.)

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