It is a creation that took the renowned fireworks artist
more than 21 years to put together. Cai Guoqiang, the artist who also created
the spectacular fireworks that displayed during the opening of the Beijing Olympics
made this show to express his love for his 100-year old grandmother who raised
him.
Cai Guoqiang, originally from China but now practicing in
New York, pulled the 5.5-metre wide fireworks display that stretched to over 503
metres high in the evening sky of Quanzhou. Watch this amazing display…
By the time this post went up, the video Cai uploaded on facebook has already got 19,231,653 views. Here are some photos taken of the display.
But just how was the Chinese sky-ladder fireworks created?
Cai Guo-Qiang achieved it by igniting wires covered in
gunpowder and built to hang 500 meters up the sky from a hot-air balloon. The Chinese
fireworks artist had tried this feat many times before but this was the
successful one.
His profile:
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian
Province, China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater
Academy, and his work has since crossed multiple mediums within art, including
drawing, installation, video and performance art. While living in Japan from
1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an
inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive
scale.
