(NEW YORK, NY – September 6, 2007) – Opening February 22, 2008, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present the most comprehensive survey to date of the innovative work of Cai Guo-Qiang. This exhibition, Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe is organized by the Guggenheim and represents the museum’s first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist. Designed as a spectacular site-specific installation within the museum’s galleries, the exhibition will present a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist’s creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: gunpowder drawings; explosion events; large-scale installations; and social projects. Featuring over 80 works selected from major public and private collections in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, the exhibition will illuminate Cai’s significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art.

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Caroline Pfohl-Ho, President of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, said, “The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation is committed to fostering and supporting Chinese arts and culture worldwide. We are delighted to support this first retrospective of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most important living Chinese artists and a true global citizen. ... Through this exhibition and the educational programs, we hope to help cultivate a deeper understanding of contemporary Chinese art around the world.”
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Following its New York opening, the exhibition is expected to travel to Beijing to coincide with the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, and to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in spring 2009.

One person show or solo show
To chart > tracciare, delinerae
to foster > incoraggiare
Beijing > Pechino