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A still from Cai Guo-Qiang s VR work Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City
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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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