Color Mushroom Cloud
Dublin Core
Title
Color Mushroom Cloud
Subject
Cai Guo-Qiang's artwerk was a part a two-day long commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the nuclear reaction’s complex legacy. Hundreds of students, faculty and community members from across Chicago gathered to hear Cai discuss the meaning of his work before the display. “Through the complexity and paradoxes found in this artwork, I hope to express both concern and hope for developments in science and human civilization,” Cai said through an interpreter, standing in front of the Henry Moore sculpture Nuclear Energy.
Description
A color photo displaying Cai Guo-Qiang's colorful pyrotechnic display on the roof of the Regenstein Library. The picture is taken from the ground, and also in view is Moore's sculpture, Nuclear Energy, and a crowd of onlookers.
Creator
Cai Guo-Qiang
Source
Pyrotechnic artwork commemorates 75th anniversary of first nuclear reaction. UChicago News.
Date
Dec. 2 2017, 3:25 p.m. CST
Contributor
The work is a commission of UChicago Arts and the Smart Museum of Art.
Format
Color comets and PixelBurst™ Aerial shells. 75 meters tall. Realized above the former CP-1 site, University of Chicago.
Collection
Citation
Cai Guo-Qiang, “Color Mushroom Cloud,” Image demo site, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ucdemo.omeka.net/items/show/21.