I've often wondered when someone will invent festival sized daytime firework displays and so to the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, this week, Chinese born artist Cai Guo-Qiang who works primarily in gunpowder, staged his largest "explosion event" of the last three years.
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Cai Guo-Qiang's gunpowder art works utilise microchip-controlled explosives to form incredible entertaining designs and patterns. For the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, he fine tuned each set of explosions to paint a different picture, in the airspace directly above via some savvy computer programming.
The artist used dye powder similar to the material used during India's Holi celebration surrounding a black powder core, made from naphthalene. Mothballs crushed into a fine powder and mixed with black-powder for a bursting charge. The explosives Cai Guo-Qiang uses are usually used by the military as anti-missile decoys.
Cai Guo-Qiang who is based in New York, was the artist who created a work for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Go here to see him being interviewed during the opening of this event.
