Cultural Melting Bath, 1997
Born in Fujian Province China, Cai Guo-Giang brings to the West a deeply spiritual sensibility that is as mysterious as it is curiously recognizable. Explosions of gunpowder in landscapes are reminders of cinematic techniques in faking battles and also of the more sinister atomic experiments of the 1950s. Yet they are intended as ceremonies wherein the moment of explosion creates chaos and space," conveying a "Chinese view of human beings as a microcosm of the universe. cultural Melting Both made of thirty tons of Taihusu, a limestone from the bottom of Lake Tai near Cai's native city of Suzhou, incorporated feng shui (ancient Chinese geomancy) and herbal medicine. Cai invited various individuals lo bathe together in the healing waters.