Publicado por Asia Society / Creative Time New York / New York, NY / NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0878480986 ISBN 13: 9780878480982
Librería: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
24 pp.; 23.5 x 31 cm.; accordion; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed "Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to "love-making" and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell." -- publisher's statement. Includes essays by Peter Eleey. Foreword by Vishakha Desai and Anne Pasternak. Introduction by Gary Garrels. New. In publisher's shrink wrap.