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Inopportune: Stage One

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Large-scale installation by Cai Guo-Qiang (2004). Nine Ford Taurus cars are suspended from the ceiling in a rotating sequence, each studded with light tubes that strobe to simulate an explosion frozen in time. First exhibited at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

Scholarly Significance

Contemporary Chinese art anchor: Inopportune: Stage One.

Notes

·Nine cars represent nine moments in an explosion sequence, suspended as if frozen in time.
·Part of the two-part Inopportune series; Stage Two uses papier-mache tigers and arrows.
·The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, is the primary institutional holder.