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Cai Guoqiang creates images by exploding real gunpowder on the canvas.               STORYLINE:            ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              A Chinese artist with an explosive style is bringing his unusual work to Madrid's Prado Museum.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai Guoqiang creates images by exploding real gunpowder on the canvas. \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              An artist at work. But instead of putting paint on canvas, Cai Guoqiang is creating this image using gunpowder.\u003cbr/\u003e              The 59-year-old US-based artist is putting the finishing touches to an explosive new collection commissioned by Madrid's Prado Museum.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai sprinkles gunpowder onto a canvas, covering it with cardboard cutouts of the different components of the image he wants to create.\u003cbr/\u003e              In this case, it's a picture of a lion trying to eat the sun, called \"Alchemist\". \u003cbr/\u003e              The different elements of the image are all connected together by a fuse and a protective piece of canvas is placed on the top.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai lights the fuse and steps back. The explosion is a dramatic flourish that creates the final artwork - almost like a magic trick. \u003cbr/\u003e              His team help him to remove the layers of cardboard to reveal the image underneath. \u003cbr/\u003e              Cai says he uses gunpowder because it has many different layers of meaning. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"On the one hand, my artworks are related to (Chinese traditional) culture, that is the gunpowder. In Chinese, it literally means medicine to produce fire. Medicine is used to cure and do good to human health. On the other hand, it is used to trigger wars and violence. When I use gunpowder in my artwork, it gives people new ways of thinking,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai says he wants to engage with the history of Spain's famous museum.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In the Prado, I am having a dialogue with Spanish artists from the old times, such as Velazquez, El Greco and Rubens,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, China. He lived for a decade in Japan and is currently based in New York City, where he moved more than two decades ago. \u003cbr/\u003e              He says his influences have evolved over the years and his work has become much more political since he moved to America. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"When I was young, I was not so into Chinese traditional art, so I studied oil painting and sculpture. I focused on modern arts. When I was in Japan, I found my way back to Chinese traditional culture. My works are free and more poetic, not so realistic. They display the beauty of materials,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"During my stay in Japan, my works were more about the relationship between humans and nature, humans and the universe. I spent a long time studying materials. My works at that time are abstract. After I went to the US, I began to care more about China's present and its future, and my works include some political elements. For example, there are more animals and decorative art.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Cai has been awarded a variety of prizes: the Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association; the Golden Lion at Venice's Biennale; and the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art, among many others.\u003cbr/\u003e              Over the past decade, he has had exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim in New York, and other shows in Los Angeles, Yokohama and Moscow. \u003cbr/\u003e              But Miguel Falomir, the director of the Prado Museum, says this exhibition is special because it's the first time the Prado has had an artist in residence. \u003cbr/\u003e              It's also significant because the space where Cai is creating these works is a new acquisition for the museum. \u003cbr/\u003e              The 'Salon de Reinos', or 'Kingdoms' Hall', is a large space with an exquisitely decorated ceiling, where Velazquez once painted.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well, it's quite an event for the Prado Museum. Previously, we have exhibited works by living artists, but they were never works of art especially made for the Prado and we had never had what English-speakers call an 'artist in residence' (in English in the original), that is, an artist who is in residence at the museum, who works here and produces works of art specifically for an exhibition in the museum,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a first for the Prado Museum. Besides, for different reasons, this building was donated to the Prado relatively recently, and before the (construction) works kick off, according to Norman Foster's rehabilitation design, he (Cai) has been able to use an empty space with historical and artistic significance. In this 'Salon de Reinos' (Kingdoms' Hall) Velazquez painted some of his most famous works and this is where we have Cai making his gunpowder paintings.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Spanish film director Isabel Coixet is making a documentary about the exhibition and the process of creating the works. \u003cbr/\u003e              The exhibition, called \"The Spirit of Painting: Cai Guoqiang at El Prado\", opens to the public on October 25 and runs until 4 March 2018.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Madrid, Spain - 6 October 2017 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of artist Cai Guoqiang placing gunpowder onto canvas\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Tracking shot of Cai taking gunpowder from bowl and putting it onto canvas\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Wide of Cai's team putting a lion-shaped piece of cardboard onto the image\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Close of Cai putting some more gunpowder underneath the lion \u003cbr/\u003e              5. Wide of Cai and his team working\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Cai's team putting another piece of cardboard on top of the lion shape \u003cbr/\u003e              7. Wide of Cai's team putting canvas on top of the image \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Mid of Cai and his aide preparing fuse for the explosion\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide of Cai lighting the fuse and explosion, then the team lifting up the top canvas and the cardboard pieces, and revealing his work underneath\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Close of gunpowder image\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Wide of Cai looking at the artwork\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Cai Guoqiang, Chinese artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"On the one hand, my artworks are related to (Chinese traditional) culture, that is the gunpowder. In Chinese, it literally means medicine to produce fire. Medicine is used to cure and do good to human health. On the other hand, it is used to trigger wars and violence. When I use gunpowder in my artwork, it gives people new ways of thinking.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Mid of Cai looking at his work\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Cai Guoqiang, Chinese artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In the Prado, I am having a dialogue with Spanish artists from the old times, such as Velazquez, El Greco and Rubens.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Wide of 'Salon de Reinos', or 'Kingdoms' Hall', a new extension of the Prado Museum which is still being redesigned \u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Cai Guoqiang, Chinese artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"When I was young, I was not so into Chinese traditional art, so I studied oil painting and sculpture. I focused on modern arts. When I was in Japan, I found my way back to Chinese traditional culture. My works are free and more poetic, not so realistic. They display the beauty of materials. During my stay in Japan, my works were more about the relationship between humans and nature, humans and the universe. I spent a long time studying materials. My works at that time are abstract. After I went to the US, I began to care more about China's present and its future, and my works include some political elements. For example, there are more animals and decorative art.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Tilt of one of Cai's paintings, laid out on floor of hall\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Falomir, Director of Prado Museum:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well, it's quite an event for the Prado Museum. Previously, we have exhibited works by living artists, but they were never works of art specially made for the Prado and we had never had what English-speakers call an 'artist in residence', that is, an artist who is in residence at the museum, who works here and produces works of art specifically for an exhibition in the museum. This is a first for the Prado Museum. Besides, for different reasons, this building was donated to the Prado relatively recently, and before the (construction) works kick off, according to Norman Foster's rehabilitation design, he (Cai) has been able to use an empty space with historical and artistic significance. In this 'Salon de Reinos' (Kingdoms' Hall) Velazquez painted some of his most famous works and this is where we have Cai making his gunpowder paintings.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Mid of Cai showing the original design for the gunpowder work, a painting called \"Alchemist\"  \u003cbr/\u003e              20. 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