GUNPOWDER AND ABSTRACTION 2015-2025 by Cai Guo-Qiang

ニューヨークを拠点に活動する中国人アーティスト、ツァイ・グオチャン(さい・こっきょう / 蔡國強 / Cai Guo-Qiang)の作品集。2025年9月から11月にかけてロンドンのギャラリー「ホワイト・キューブ・バーモンジー(White Cube Bermondsey)」で開催した展覧会に伴い刊行された。

本書は、火薬を用いた表現における10年間の実験的探究の軌跡を辿る一冊である。具象と抽象のあいだを行き交う記念碑的作品群を詳述し、不安定で変容的なメディウムとしての火薬に対する、作者ならではの取り組みを浮かび上がらせている。

初対面から30年以上を経て、作者とキュレーターのハンス・ウルリッヒ・オブリスト(Hans Ulrich Obrist)は本書のために対談を行い、火薬を用いた初期の試みや、キャリアの節目ごとに発表されてきた数々のパブリック・コミッションについて語り合う。さらに、ゲティ研究所の保存・修復部門責任者であるレイチェル・リヴァンク(Rachel Rivenc)が、保存の専門家という独自の視点から、作家の実践に内在する概念的・物質的複雑性を考察している。

Published to mark Cai Guo-Qiang's solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey (September – November 2025), this catalogue charts a decade of the artist’s experimentation with gunpowder. Detailing monumental works which shift between registers of the figurative and abstract, this publication profiles Cai’s distinctive engagement with a volatile and transformative medium.

Over 30 years after their first meeting, Cai and Hans Ulrich Obrist are reunited in conversation for this publication, discussing the artist’s early forays with gunpowder, and the many public commissions which have punctuated his career. Additionally, Rachel Rivenc explores the conceptual and material complexity of the artist’s practice from her unique perspective as Head of Conservation and Preservation at the Getty Research Institute.

by Cai Guo-Qiang , Hans Ulrich Obrist

REGULAR PRICE ¥16,500  (tax incl.)

ISBN: 9781910844809

softcover
178 pages
245 x 305 mm
color
2025

published by WHITE CUBE

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