Cai Guo-Qiang
Fallen Blossoms
December 11, 2009–March 21, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
T 215-763-8100
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum Collaborate to Present an Exhibition of Works by Artist Cai Guo-Qiang
Artist to Create ‘Explosion Event’ Outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Gunpowder Drawing at Fabric Workshop and Museum on December 11
The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum will present a multi-site exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms. A poetic meditation on the passage of time, memory, and memorializing, the exhibition will feature one of the artist’s signature “explosion events,” Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project, that has been specifically commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the opening on Friday December 11; a live gunpowder drawing creation event will follow immediately at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Inspired by the memory of Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943-2008), late director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her long friendship with the founder and artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Marion Boulton Stroud, Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms addresses themes of memory, loss and renewal on a personal and public level. It is Cai’s first solo exhibition in Philadelphia and the first in the United States since his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in early 2008.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Tel. 215-763-8100
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215.561.8888
Press Contact:
Lindsay Warner, 215-684-7864
lwarner@philamuseum.org
