Celebrated artist Cai Guo-Qiang partners with HTC VIVE Arts to unveil first Virtual Reality artwork
VR work Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City, installation view at exhibition Odyssey and Homecoming, 2020. Photo by Lin Yi, courtesy Cai Studio.
BEIJING
.- Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the worlds most celebrated artists, recently unveiled his first virtual reality artwork, created in partnership with HTC VIVE Arts. The artwork, Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City, debuted as part of Odyssey and Homecoming, the artists major exhibition at the Palace Museum, Beijing, which runs until to 5 February 2021. For this exhibition, the artist uses leading VR technology to create a wondrously magnificent fireworks ceremony dedicated to the Forbidden City and its majestic history.
Cai Guo-Qiang’s VR fireworks bring together advanced technology and traditional craft
Cai Guo-Qiang’s VR fireworks bring together advanced technology and traditional craft
Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City is the Chinese artist’s first virtual reality work, created in collaboration with HTC Vive Arts, a colourful daytime fireworks performance with a surprising physical dimension
Still from
Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City, the first virtual reality artwork by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. It depicts a daytime fireworks display at the Forbidden City, reminscent of the performances once held at the imperial palace to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Courtesy Cai Studio
A still from Cai Guo-Qiang s VR work Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City Courtesy Cai Studio
Cai Guo-Qiang’s spectacular retrospective in Beijing’s Forbidden City, opened last week although to only private fanfare. Part of the palace s 600th anniversary commemorations this year,
Odyssey and Homecoming (until 5 February) displays five halls of paintings, video and documentation by the 63-year old Chinese artist. But Cai’s signature firework installations were impossible over the imperial palace a collection of some of the oldest and largest wooden structures in the world.
The exhibition curated remotely by the Columbia University historian Simon Schama and co-organised by the Beijing Winter Olympics Committee and the Palace Museum therefore ends not with a bang but with some tech. Working with Taiwan’s HTC Vive Arts since last year, Cai and his studio have created a virtual reality (VR) and video piece,
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