Until September 6 you have time to visit the exhibition I want to Believe, of Cai Guo-Qiang, that it is in the Museum Guggenheim of Bilbao.

The sample consists of 4 big works: Straight ahead, The traces of the history, Inopportune, Courtyard of the collection of the revenue of Venice (that we see in the video) and An Iwaki gift.

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I want to Believe it is the title of the exhibition of the Chinese artist I fell down guo-Qiang that you can see in the Museum Guggeneheim Bilbao until next September 6.

Throughout all this time we have seen one to one the works of the exhibition, across the videos in which the proper artist reports to us the conception that hides in each of them. Today it is the Inopportune shift of the installation, which assembly we have already seen in video.

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Until September 6 the exhibition of contemporary art will be opened to the public I want to Believe of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most important Chinese artists of the contemporary art.

The sample is in the Museum Guggenheim Bilbao, who also have realized a series of videos of the exhibition, with the proper artist as commentator of his work. Here the reading and motivations of the work trace of the history, realized in 2008 with gunpowder, one of the elements metáforicos that they define the language of this Chinese artist.

I fell down Guo-Qiang is present in the Guggenheim Bilbao with his exhibition I want to Believe, a retrospective that Chinese brings over to us to the creative universe of one of the artists more important contemporaries.

To understand what are the keys of the contemporary art of Guo-Qiang, the museum has realized a series of videos in which the proper Chinese artist is introducing us in his works. Here the video of the installation Straight ahead, work realized in 2004 for the Guggenheim Berlin, in which it celebrates the history of the Berlin people.

I want to Believe Bilbao can be visited until next September 6 in the Guggenheim.

The exhibition I Want to Believe of the Chinese artist I fell down Guo-Qiang has been the whole deployment of machinery and human resources. In addition to his complex character as for subject-matter, in this video you will be able to see the Inopportune assembly of the work: Phase one, 2004.

It is the same work installation composed by real motorcars hung by a set of sure supports, which do of the installation something very spectacular to the look.

Not long ago we speak about the exhibition I want to Believe of the Chinese artist I fell down Guo-Qiang in the Guggenheim Bilbao. A very particular artist and perhaps one of the names that more resounds in the international art, since his work tackles one of the concept that it crosses to our epoch: the contradiction and the contrast.

In this video realized by the Guggenheim Bilbao, the police station of the exhibition, Alexandra Munroe, explains the searches of Cai Guo-Qiang to us in the art and the form in which the materials and the forms realize of this search, which finally is the contradiction.

A video in English, but very clear, to approach to understand the form in which this artist captures in contemporary art the contradiction as fundamental element of our culture. The contradiction of life - death, peace - violence, man - woman, past - present, finally in what he conceives like Ying-Yang, like the only truth.

Reflection an Iwaki gift, 2004

Under the title I Want to Believe, the Chinese artist I Fell down Guo-Qiang presents his work to us from today in Museum Guggenheim Bilbao.

What will we be able to see? The sample consists of four means that the artist has worked: drawings with gunpowder, facilities, social projects and projects of explosions in video. In whole there will be seen 40 works realized between the 80 and the actuality.

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On November 30 Christie's celebrates a select auction of Asian contemporary art with only 32 works of the most quoted artists. In her there takes part one of the Chinese artists that more we like: I fell down Gou Qiang with the sigueintes pieces:

Project N º 143 – the mark of 921

Signed 921 victims of the earthquake are all the Bodhisattva, the teachers, using his lives to teach to Buddha dharma K Main Sheng-Yen Station: TCU084; recording Time: 5:46:58 PM 09/20/99 (average hour of Greenwich) Taiwan 8n +-> 9 / 21 = the second 46:58, 90 of level (Ming Tan station) the mark of 921 I Fell down Guo Qiang on January 15, 2000 in Taiwan National museum of Fine arts in Chinese, and Pinyin Inglés
Gunpowder on the role leaned back on wooden panels
Every panel: 200 x 75,5 cm
Whole dimensions of 12 pieces: 200 x 906 cm
Executed in 2000
Starting price: 358.000 – 563.000 euros

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Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, 2005
Realized in the Rio Potomac (Washington, A.D.) on October 1, 2005, during 7 minutes.
Photo: Hiro Ihara

The Chinese artist I Fell down Guo-Qiang rises to the explanatory scene of the Guggenheim of New York with a titled retrospective I fell down Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe. The exhibition can be visited until May 28.

The sample assembles more than 80 works realized from the 80s until our days, which try to realize of the style Cai Guo-Qiang and his fascination for going beyond the beliefs, of relieving the secret of the thing.

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