Nighttime Sakura, a gunpowder artwork, is perhaps the largest of its kind to have been attempted by Cai Guoqiang to date. The 58-year-old Chinese contemporary artist, who is based in New York, is ...

Cai was most excited by the final result of exploding colored powders. The smoky scarlet reminds one of the irresistible "sense of being insane and abused" that can be found in paintings by Francis ...