A gesture in the sky

Cai Guo-Qiang transforms the Douro into an ephemeral page where art is written through gunpowder, light, and time.

Internationally recognised for using explosion as an artistic medium, he created, among other major works, the fireworks sequence for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games and large-scale interventions at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou.

In a single gesture, the sky becomes a surface of creation.
The work appears and disappears almost simultaneously, resisting permanence.
More than a spectacle, it is a form of writing in the air, an image that exists only in the moment it unfolds.

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