Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky by Cai Guo-Qiang is a 2012 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Cai Guo-Qiang, paired here with the talk they gave.
Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this volume documents new projects commissioned for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, alongside Cai Guo-Qiang's own survey of his artistic journey and the personal cosmology that informs his work. It features a rich sampling of Cai's wonderfully diverse oeuvre, including explosion events, gunpowder drawings, and installations. Informative essays and a conversation with the artist explore Cai's influences, from traditional Chinese scrolls and his father's miniature paintings to Asian philosophy and memories of his grandmother. Including never-before-published new works and unprecedented contributions by the artist himself, this book promises to be an important reference on Cai's art for years to come.0Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (8.4.-30.7.2012).