Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Name: Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-10-14
Duration: 1 h 16 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Ian Buruma, Guo-Qiang Cai, Wen-You Cai

20162016
1h 16m

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7.3/10

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Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016)

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Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

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7.3/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

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- 1 nomination

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Cai Guo-Qiang Project & Exhibition Footage:
"Black Christmas Tree: Explosion for Washington D.C." footage courtesy of The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
"Making of Gunpowder Drawing Day and Night" footage courtesy of Eslite Gallery and Taipei Fine Arts Nuseum
"Falling Back to Earth" footage courtesy of Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum videography by Mika Johnson
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain"
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune" footage courtesy of MASS MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art)
"Light Cycle" footage courtesy of Creative Times
"The Story of Reflection - A Gift from Iwaki" directed by Tadashige Shiga, edited by Eizoukirokusya, videography by Makoto Nawa, Yoshio Kanno and Hidenori Kawamata
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Sunshine and Solitude" footage courtesy of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo & UNAM
"Transient Rainbow" footage courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).

Soundtracks
Vuelvo al Sur
written & composed by Astor Piazzolla
additional Remix production by Koop

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9/10

Well rounded documentary

Not just a catalogue or celebration of this brilliant artist's work, but examines his relationship with his family and homeland, the navigation required to work in communist China, the trappings of success and fame, and accusations of selling out. Very interesting and unexpectedly emotional.

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