White Cube is pleased to return to TEFAF New York with a solo booth of works by New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, comprising a selection of his bird gunpowder paintings made in the last few years. These vibrant works depict avian flocks in successive states of flight and decay, while drawing on the artist’s research into the historic glazed blue tiles known as azulejos that distinguish the architecture of Porto. The presentation marks a pivotal point in Cai’s practice, when he returned to colour after working primarily with black gunpowder for several decades.

ABOUT ARTISTS : Cai Guo-Qiang

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Cai Guo-Qiang conceives large-scale, site-specific projects and explosive interventions that negotiate humanity’s place within a broader cosmic order. Drawing into orbit a remarkable breadth of subject matter, the artist contends with the ideological upheavals and cross-cultural tensions of modern geopolitical history, the shifting relations between East and West, and the elemental rhythms of the natural world. Bringing disparate references, materials and modes of enquiry into relation, Cai’s work advances a singular proposition, establishing a field of tension in which apparent oppositions – between global borders, earth and sky, control and surrender – yield, in their collision, new and uncharted possibilities.

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