First Look: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Extraterrestrial Vision

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Channel: Sotheby's · 2018 · Education

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Famous for his public pyrotechnics, Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder and ink work on paper depicts the view from space by aliens of his actual performance explosion at the Great Wall of China. 

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