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Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese, born 1957

Illusion, 2004
3-channel digital video installation
Purchased 2007

Renowned for using gunpowder and pyrotechnics in his artworks, Cai Guo-Qiang has superimposed footage of a car exploding with fireworks onto a bustling Times Square in his first video project, Illusion. The constantly unrolling image recalls Chinese long-scroll painting as the action unfurls, simultaneously spectacular and threatening yet unnoticed by passersby.