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蔡国强
Cai Guoqiang
Encounter with the Unknown No. 2 2022 Gunpowder on glass and mirror 6 ft. 9 15/16 in. x 6 ft. 1 in. x 1 1/2 in. (208.12 x 185.42 x 3.81 cm)
蔡国强（生于1957年，中国泉州人）于1981年至1985年在上海戏剧学院接受舞台设计培训。从那时起，他的作品跨越了绘画、装置、录像和行为艺术等多种艺术媒介。他在家乡泉州开始尝试火药画，并于1986年底至1995年在日本生活期间继续探索火药画的实践。他继续发展这些火药作品的规模和形式，这最终使他发展出了他标志性的户外爆炸事件。他以东方哲学和当代社会问题为概念基础，经常针对特定地点的艺术作品回应了当地文化和历史，并在观众和周围更大的宇宙之间建立了对话。他的爆炸艺术和装置充满了一种超越二维平面与社会和自然接触的力量。
Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China)was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy from 1981 until 1985. His work has since spanned multiple artistic mediums including drawing, painting, installation, video, and performance art. Cai began to experiment with gunpowder painting in his hometown Quanzhou, and continued exploring the practice while living in Japan from the end of 1986 to 1995. He continued to evolve the scale and form of these gunpowder works, which eventually led him to develop his signature outdoor explosion events. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, his often site-specific artworks respond to the local culture and history and establish a dialogue between viewers and the larger universe around them. His explosion art and installations are imbued with a force that transcends the two-dimensional plane to engage with society and nature.
他获得了许多重要奖项，包括1999年威尼斯双年展金狮奖、2007年广岛艺术奖和2009年富冈奖。2012年，他凭借久负盛名的Praemium Imperiale获得绘画类桂冠。该奖项由日本皇室授予，旨在表彰诺贝尔奖未涵盖的艺术领域的终身成就。同年，他被提名为五位获得第一届美国国务院艺术奖章的艺术家之一，以表彰他对国际文化交流的杰出贡献。他最近获得的荣誉包括2015年的巴内特和安娜莉·纽曼基金会奖、2016年的邦内芬顿当代艺术奖和2020年的第7届野口勇奖。蔡还担任核心创意团队成员，并担任2008年北京奥运会开幕式和闭幕式的视觉特效总监。
He has received many important awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1999, the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2007, and the 2009 Fukoka Prize. In 2012, he was honored as a Laureate for the prestigious Praemium Imperiale in the painting category. The award was bestowed by the Japanese royal family and recognizes lifetime achievement in the arts across categories not covered by the Nobel Prize. The same year, he was named as one of five artists to receive the first U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts for his outstanding commitment to international cultural exchange. His recent honors include the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award in 2015, the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art in 2016, and the 7thIsamu Noguchi Award in 2020. Cai also served as a member of the core creative team and as the director of visual and special effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
在过去的三十年里，他在世界各地的主要艺术中心举办了许多个展，包括2006年在纽约大都会艺术博物馆举办的《屋顶上的蔡国强：透明纪念碑》和2008年在纽约所罗门·R·古根海姆博物馆举办的回顾展《我想相信》。他2013年的个展Da Vincis do Povo在巴西的三个城市巡回展出，吸引了超过一百万的游客。里约热内卢版成为当年世界上参观人数最多的在世艺术家展览。2015年，蔡的爆炸事件“天梯”在他家乡福建泉州的辉屿岛上实现。这件艺术品成为由奥斯卡奖得主凯文·麦克唐纳执导的网飞同名纪录片的核心。
For the past three decades, Cai has held numerous solo exhibitions in major art centers around the world, includingCai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006 and his retrospective I Want to Believe at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008. His 2013 solo exhibition Da Vincis do Povo toured to three cities in Brazil, attracting over one million visitors. The Rio de Janeiro edition became the most-visited exhibition of any living artist in the world that year. In 2015, Cai’s explosion event Sky Ladder was realized off of Huiyu Island in his hometown of Quanzhou, Fujian. The artwork became the centerpiece of an eponymous Netflix documentary, directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald.
近年来，蔡开启了个人的西方艺术史之旅——在世界知名博物馆举办的一系列展览，每一个都是与主办博物馆所体现的西方艺术历史的对话：10月在普希金国立美术馆（俄罗斯，2017）；绘画的精神。蔡国强在普拉多博物馆的普拉多（西班牙，2017）；Flora Commedia:蔡国强在乌菲兹美术馆的乌菲兹（意大利，2018）；《火山中：蔡国强与庞贝在那不勒斯国家考古博物馆和庞贝考古公园》（意大利，2019）；和非品牌在所罗门·R·古根海姆博物馆（美国，2019），蔡也参与策划。
In recent years, Cai embarked onIndividual’s Journey Through Western Art History—a series of exhibitions held in world-renowned museums, each a dialogue with the Western art history embodied by the host museum: October at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russia, 2017); The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado at the Museo del Prado (Spain, 2017); Flora Commedia: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Uffizi at the Uffizi Galleries (Italy, 2018); In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Pompeii Archaeological Park (Italy, 2019); and Non-Brand at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (USA, 2019) which Cai also curated.
他最近的其他重要项目包括个展《蔡国强：维多利亚国家美术馆的短暂风景》（澳大利亚，2019）和爆炸事件《与未知相遇：墨西哥的宇宙计划》（墨西哥，2019）。
His other important recent projects include the solo exhibitionCai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape at the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia, 2019) and the explosion event Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico (Mexico, 2019).
2020年12月至2021年2月，蔡在北京故宫博物院举办了个人展览《奥德赛与返校节》，这是他个人西方艺术史之旅的高潮。恰逢紫禁城建城600周年，这是故宫历史上第一个当代艺术个展。2021年7月，《奥德赛与返校节》前往让·努维尔设计的上海浦东艺术博物馆，作为其首届展览之一，它将在那里展出至2022年3月7日。
From December 2020 to February 2021, Cai held his solo exhibitionOdyssey and Homecoming at the Palace Museum in Beijing—the culmination of his Individual’s Journey Through Western Art History. Coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Forbidden City, it was the first solo exhibition of contemporary art in the museum’s history. In July 2021, Odyssey and Homecoming traveled to the Jean Nouvel-designed Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai as one of its inaugural exhibitions, where it will remain on display until March 7, 2022.
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