MASS MoCA Commission. Installation at MASS MoCA, North
Adams, MA, USA. Photograph by Hiro Ihara. Courtesy of Cai Guo-Qiang.

Illusion

2004

Cai Guo-Qiang

Chinese, (works in America), born 1957

Three-channel color video installation, car and spent fireworks

1 min., 30 sec.; car: length: 170 in.

Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

2006.2

Provenance: Purchased from the artist

MASS MoCA Commission. Installation at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA. Photograph by Hiro Ihara. Courtesy of Cai Guo-Qiang.

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Guggenheim Museum, "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe", February 22 - May 28, 2008, (2/22-5/28, 2008)

Santa Fe, New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe, "Illusion", January 21- March 26, 2006

Published ReferencesKrens, Thomas and Alexandra Munroe. "Cai-Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe." New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2008, pp. 218-2210, illus. fig. 74

Steward Heon, Laura. "Inopportune et al." North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA, 2005

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