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“Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.”

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Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang, born on December 8, 1957, in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, is an internationally renowned contemporary artist. His works, which use gunpowder as a medium, blend painting, sculpture, installation, and performance art, exploring dialogues between tradition and modernity, and the East and the West. more

“For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.”

Important Form Force Pieces Broken Destruction Unity Boat Aesthetic Display Decay Ceramics

Author:Cai Guo-Qiang

“Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.”

Book Weapons Victim Careful Be Careful

Author:Cai Guo-Qiang

“I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it.”

Want Beautiful Bears Cents

Author:Zhang Huan

“Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.”

Should Given Mistake Racism Nationalism Quarters Patriot Scorn Homeland

Author:Johannes Rau