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Sunday, February 24, 2008

It's high time wolves received their due in the international art scene

The greatest surprise at the Guggenheim show is the extent to which Cai has created huge installations and sculptures in addition to his more ephemeral fireworks shows. There's a team of stuffed tigers, pierced with dozens of arrows, bounding up the first ramp and a pack of 99 wolves flinging themselves through the air at a glass wall. There's a river in one of the upstairs galleries, deep enough to support a raft that museum visitors will be allowed to ride. In another, an entire rotting boat is being assembled, plank by plank, by a team of Japanese fishermen flown in for the occasion. Perhaps the most astounding display will be "The Rent Collector's Courtyard," an exact re-creation of a 1960s propagandistic statue that depicts the evils perpetrated by a capitalist landlord. At the Guggenheim, there will be 50 figures made out of clay and assembled in public view over the course of the exhibition by Chinese craftsmen.- Washington Post, February 24, 2008
Sure, but where are the thousands of preserved beetles, skewered on rods extending from a central core, each rod piercing the trunk of a different variety of ornamental plum tree bred for the occasion.

What I would very much like to know is whether either Cai Guo-Quiang or anyone at the Guggenheim knows the popular-culture antecedent of the exhibition's title, "I Want to Believe."


posted at 8:29 AM

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