Cai Guoqiang

The video work Illusion documents an explosion project near the former site of Berlin's Anhalter Station. The artwork contemplates the dual nature of violence and m beauty evoking both the grandeur and the devastation that mark the layered histoy of this ground.

Documentary made for the exhibition that the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang made in the Prado Museum. The film reveals all the secrets of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the great international contemporary artists, famous for his original explosion technique in his drawings thanks to the properties of gunpowder.