Wolves in the Fog: Project for Deutsche Guggenheim

2006
Collection of the artist
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Art Type: 
Drawing
Dimensions: 230 x 310 cm (90 1/2 x 122 in.) overall
Medium: 
Gunpowder on paper, mounted on wood as four-panel screen
  • Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio
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Danger Book: Suicide Fireworks
Countdown: Fireworks Project for the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
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Drawing for Footprints of History
Everything Is Museum (2008) - Beijing
Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows (2008) - New York, NY, USA
Wako: Japanese Pirates of the Middle Ages
Black Fireworks: Project for Hiroshima
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Head On (2008) - New York, NY, USA
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Pine Tree and Eagle
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Move Along, Nothing to See Here (2006) - New York, NY, USA
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Distant View of San Gimignano from the Stage
Chun Qiu: Project for the New Galleries of Suzhou Museum, Invited by I.M. Pei
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Buddha's Light
Descending Wolves: For the Guggenheim International Gala
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Exploding House: Project for Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
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Wolves in the Fog: Project for Deutsche Guggenheim
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Inopportune: Stage Two (2004) - North Adams, MA, USA
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Reflection–A Gift from Iwaki (2004) - Washington, D.C., USA
Illusion (2004) - North Adams, MA, USA
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Inopportune: Stage One-Exploding Car No. 1
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Money Net
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Cai Guo-Qiang's Maksimov Collection
Big White Truth: From Antonioni's Chung Kuo
Passage
Cai Guo-Qiang's CHADO Pavilion—Homage to Tenshin Okakura
Spider Web
Skybound UFO and Shrine
Kaleidoscope
Turtle Fountain
Gift: Triumphant Return with Heavy Wounds
Blue Dragon
99 Golden Boats
Impression Oil Drawing: Transient Rainbow
Ascending
Drawings for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Against the Current
Sky Bound UFO and Shrine
Fireworks from Heaven (2001) - Yokohama, Japan
Arbitrary History: River, An (2001) - Lyon, France
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Eagle Has Arrived!, The (2001) - Lyon, France
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cityscape Fireworks
Fountain
Performing Chinese Ink Paintings
Winning Gift: Heavy with Wounds, A
Picturesque Painteresque
Kite
Who is the Happiest
Service for the Biennale!
Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects (2002) - Paris, France
How is Your Feng Shui: Year 2000 Project for Manhattan
Still Life Performance
Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows (2000) - New York, NY, USA
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Sky Bath
Fountain
Till by Blade, Sow by Fire
Mark of 921, The
Crystal Tower
DMoCA (Dragon Museum of Contemporary Art): Everything is Museum No. 1 2000
Dragon Has Arrived!, The (1999) - Houston, TX, USA
Self Promotion for the People
Ascending a Staircase
Dragon: Explosion on Pleats Please Issey Miyake (2000)
Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century (2000) - Lyon, France
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 10
I Am the Y2K Bug
Dragon Sight Sees Vienna: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 32
Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard
Spring Breeze
Age of Not Believing in God, The (1999) - Cologne, Germany
Bridge Crossing
Calling
Firecrackers for the Opening of S.M.A.K.
Skylight
Year 2000 Bell
Salute
Dragon Boat
Drawing for Dragon Sight Sees Vienna: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 32
Doctor Undergoing Treatment, A
Garment A from Dragon: Explosion on Pleats Please Issey Miyake
Garment B from Dragon: Explosion on Pleats Please Issey Miyake
No Destruction, No Construction: Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art
Golden Missile
Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows (1998) - New York, NY, USA
Dragon: Explosion on Issey Miyake (1998)
Advertising Castle
Parting of the Sea: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 30
New York Earthworm Room
Cultural Melting Bath: Project for the 20th Century (1998) - Naoshima
Torideshi Nishi 1-22-21, 301 Elizabeth Street
Flying Dragon in the Heavens: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 29
Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century (1997) - Queens, NY, USA
Mao
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A Cure When Ill, A Supplement When Healthy (1997) - Chicago, IL, USA
Dragon Has Arrived!, The (1997) - Venice, Italy
Other Shore, The
Heavenly Secret
Red Golf
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Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan (1996) - New York, NY, USA
Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century, The
Dragon Skeleton/Suture of the Wall—True Collection
Dome
Be Careful with Fire
Bringing to Venice What Marco Polo Forgot
Orient (San Jō Tower), The
Restrained Violence—Rainbow: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 25
Moxacautery–For Africa
Snake Bag–Multiculture
Internal and External Universe: Water Wood Metal Fire Earth (1995) - Venice, Italy
Acupuncture for Venice
Sundial
Sinking and Rising: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 27 (#2)
Sinking and Rising: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 27 (#1)
Kaikou—The Keel (Returning Light—The Dragon Bone)
Earth Has Its Black Hole Too: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 16, The
Project for Heiankyō 1,200th Anniversary: Celebration from Chang’an
Horizon from the Pan-Pacific: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 14, The
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Universal Design: Feng Shui Project for Mito: Chang Sheng
Myth: Shooting the Suns: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 21
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Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 10
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Immensity of Heaven and Earth: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 11, The
Immensity of Heaven and Earth: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 11, The
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45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
Fetus Movement II: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 9
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Fetus Movement: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 5
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 10
45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3
Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2
Bigfoot's Footprints: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 6
A Certain Lunar Eclipse: Project for Humankind No. 2
Fetus Movement: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 5
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Inverted Pyramid on the Moon: Project for Humankind No. 3
Human Abode: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 1
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Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2
Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2
Ascending Dragon: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 2
Ancient Brand
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Crater
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Self-Portrait: A Subjugated Soul
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