When Cai Guo-Qiang imitates Kcho. And vice versa.

Published by c-monster on March 12, 2008 in Art, Bizarre Coincidence, C-Monster and Sculpture.

Borrowing your enemy’s arrows (1998) by Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim, NYC. March 2008.

Kcho at the Marlborough Gallery, NYC. January 2008.

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5 Comments

jasonlujan
March 12, 2008 at 2:42 pm

contemporary chinese artists giving western audiences not actual contemporary chinese art, but rather westerners’ concept of what contemporary chinese art should be.
C-Monster
March 12, 2008 at 2:58 pm

kcho is cuban…
James
March 12, 2008 at 6:01 pm

Yeah, but the real question is what does contemporary Chinese art, or contemporary Asian art, suppose to look like.
ruthk
March 12, 2008 at 6:05 pm

Cai’s piece “Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows” was first installed in the fall of 1998 at PS1, as part of the show Inside Out: New Chinese Art, organized by the Asia Society and SFMOMA. I have no idea how old Kcho’s piece is.
jasonlujan
March 13, 2008 at 11:20 am

i was referring solely to Cai Guo-Qiang. sorry if i came out overly aggressive.