Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows
Catalogue
- Year
- 1998
- Dimensions
- Boat approximately 60" x 23' 7" x 7' 6" (152.4 x 720 x 230 cm), each arrow approximately 24" (62 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Cai Guo-Qiang
Artist
Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese artist born in 1957 known for large-scale installations and performances that employ gunpowder, explosives, and pyrotechnics as primary materials. His work engages with ideas of destruction, transformation, and the sublime through carefully orchestrated detonations that leave charred marks on paper, walls, and architectural surfaces. Operating across drawing, sculpture, and ephemeral event-based practice, he treats explosive force as both medium and metaphor for historical rupture and cultural collision.
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Record
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- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Year
- 1998
- Dimensions
- Boat approximately 60" x 23' 7" x 7' 6" (152.4 x 720 x 230 cm), each arrow approximately 24" (62 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1998-M070372
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified