The artist I selected is Cai Guo-Qiang. He was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China, and lives and works in New York. He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and attended the Institute for Contemporary Art: The National and International Studio Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City.
His work features the beauty of destruction and the aesthetic of pain and decay. His art is primary composed of gun power, a dangerous and unpredictable substance. He finds confidence in the unpredictability he lets the material take him to where it wants to he and embraces the challenges associated with it.
His art strides to provoke a strong, visceral emotion in the observer. For example his tiger sculptures that are covered in arrows. It invokes that emotion in the aesthetics of pain. Another example is his plane sculpture made out of sharp objects and weapons, like scissors, pliers and knifes. It seems complete contradictory and again shows that pain aesthetic. He believes that not everything should have an answer, that sometimes should be left unresolved and open to questioning.
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