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Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist whose recent work has revolved around gunpowder and its awe-inspiring effects. His most recent exhibition at the MOCA in Los Angeles left an intimidating impression on whomever was watching: from the ground or above.
If you Google mystery circle, you may be surprised at what you find. Assembling up to 40,000 rockets on the northern wall of the Geffen Conservatory at the MOCA, and firing green saucer like spinners into the smoky imagery, “Mystery Circle” is part of Guo-Qiang’s continuing effort to artistically express the relationship between man and the extraterrestrial. You have to admire the precision and patience of Guo-Qiang to set up such a spectacle, no matter how short the resulting show is. Knowing the exact spots the rockets will fire and the amount of time the smoke imagery would linger in the air is not only artistic, it’s scientific.
If you Google mystery circle, you may be surprised at what you find. Assembling up to 40,000 rockets on the northern wall of the Geffen Conservatory at the MOCA, and firing green saucer like spinners into the smoky imagery, “Mystery Circle” is part of Guo-Qiang’s continuing effort to artistically express the relationship between man and the extraterrestrial. You have to admire the precision and patience of Guo-Qiang to set up such a spectacle, no matter how short the resulting show is. Knowing the exact spots the rockets will fire and the amount of time the smoke imagery would linger in the air is not only artistic, it’s scientific.
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