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In a series of exhibitions at major museums and cultural sites around the world, including the Prado Museum, Uffizi Galleries, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Pompeii Archaeological Park, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cai has engaged in dialogues with periods of Western art history as presented by the institutions. The series also retraces Cai’s expansive journey of homecoming through dialogues with his original passion for painting, the spirit of Chinese culture and his eternal home in the Cosmos. This publication presents the culmination of Cai's Journey with the exhibition Odyssey and Homecoming at the Palace Museum, the first ever by a contemporary artist, coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742639464721,"sku":"NGR9781636810072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51042448933137,"sku":"NIN9781636810072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52140876366097,"sku":"NLS9781636810072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53500078948625,"sku":"GOR014948641","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1636810071.jpg?v=1751427463"},{"product_id":"cai-guo-qiang-man-eagle-and-eye-in-the-sky-book-cai-guo-qiang-9781900829144","title":"Cai Guo-Qiang Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49961005318417,"sku":"NGR9781900829144","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1900829142.jpg?v=1751347211"},{"product_id":"cai-guo-qiang-a-clan-of-boats-book-cai-guo-qiang-9788791706004","title":"Cai Guo-Qiang: A Clan of Boats","description":"Throughout his career, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957) has used the motif of the boat to represent the exchange of knowledge across cultures. 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I sailed to Shanghai first, and then to Tokyo, New York, and the rest of the world, further and further, shuttling between different ports, different natural sceneries, cultures, and histories.\" The book includes an essay written by art critic Karen Smith and two interviews (conducted ten years apart) by Hans Ulrich Obrist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51066809057553,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51066811580689,"sku":"NIN9788791706004","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/879170605X.jpg?v=1751351833"},{"product_id":"cai-guo-qiang-light-cycle-book-cai-guo-qiang-9780878480982","title":"Cai Guo-Qiang: Light Cycle","description":"Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's \u003ci\u003eLight Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. 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