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Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey Exhibition
Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey Exhibition

On View: September 17,2024 - June 15,2025

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Pacific Asia Museum

Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey Exhibition

Over three decades, Cai has had numerous solo exhibitions in major art museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006, and a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008, the latter of which broke the museum’s then-attendance record.

Exhibition Details

On View: September 17,2024 - June 15,2025

Pacific Asia Museum , 46 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA

Overview

For several decades, artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder and pyrotechnics to create drawings, paintings, and explosion events. The exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey will fill the first floor galleries at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. Based on years of research by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, A Material Odyssey will explore the nature and properties of gunpowder and chronicle its use by the artist. Click Here to Learn More

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