When:
4/8/2012 - 7/30/2012

Where:

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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CAI GUO-QIANG Sky Ladder

Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder is the first West Coast solo museum exhibition of the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Known for his explosion projects and gunpowder drawings. Cai’s work integrates manual technique and new, highly sophisticated developments in pyrotechnic technology.

The exhibition will be composed of an outdoor explosion event, a suspended sculptural installation, three gunpowder drawings, and video compilations, which together press Cai’s exploration of natural forces and extraterrestrial life. The outdoor explosion project, titled Mystery Circle: Explosion Project for MOCA, Los Angeles, is the latest work in Cai’s Projects for Extraterrestrials series that began in 1989 and has since included more than 30 works. Located on the northern exterior wall of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the piece will be ignited on April 7 to create a spectacular explosion, including pyrotechnic flying saucers, burning crop circles, and an alien god. The composition echoes the crop circle theme, which first appeared in Cai’s I am an Extraterrestrial, Project for Meeting with Tenjin (Heavenly Gods): Project for Extraterrestrials No. 4. (1990), in which the viewer looks down on a line of five crop circles in diminishing size.  

Inside the Geffen, the theme will be carried out by an installation suspended from the ceiling that replicates the crop circles that have appeared in the grain fields all over the world, particularly in southern England for over twenty years. As visitors gaze up they will have the sensation of looking down on the earth from the sky, upsetting their orientation and their relationship to their own bodies.

Where:

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Event Website

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