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SKY LADDER: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang<\/a><\/strong>
\nNetflix<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong>
\nGrade: B<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Kevin Macdonald<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Kevin Macdonald<\/strong>
\nCast: Cai Guo-Qiang, Ian Buruma, Cai Wen-You, Cai Wenhao, Ben Davis, Jeffrey Deitch, Phil Grucci, Thomas Krens, Tatsumi Masatoshi, Orville Schell, Jennifer Wen Ma, Hong Hong Wu<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Review 1, NYC, 9\/22\/16<\/strong>
\nOpens: October 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

China looks a lot different now from what I saw when I visited the world\u2019s most populated country in 1975.\u00a0 At that time Shanghai was a dowdy city, one that would be considered a backwater when compared to the glittering premier cities of Europe.\u00a0 Its \u201cFifth Avenue<\/a>\u201d equivalent was dark, even in the daytime when there was less pollution than now, its department store like a glorified Seven-Eleven.\u00a0 If you look at the city now, particularly as it is handsomely portrayed by Kevin Macdonald\u2019s brief documentary, you might at first glance think that the skyline represents that of Chicago or New York.\u00a0 And one of the ways that Shanghai is much different in 2016 than it was in \u201975 is found in the explosive fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang\u2019s art.<\/p>\n

This is not the \u201cart\u201d that bores thousands of New York<\/a> middle-schoolers who visit the Metropolitan as the one signature field trip of the year. Even the Metropolitan\u2019s room with medieval armaments would not phase them.\u00a0 This is because everything there, as in most museums, is static, and in most museums the only subject in motion might be a black-and-white, pedantic cinema essay about the contents of a painting, a sculpture or a room.\u00a0 But Cai\u2019s museum is as contemporary as they come, an outdoor extravaganza whose comparison to our Fourth of July fireworks would be insulting to him.<\/p>\n

Cai Guo-Qiang, a tall, slender man who has resided in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and now New York, relates to us in his native Mandarin with English subtitles his view of Chinese politics along with his commentary on his form of art.\u00a0 Like all artists, especially outside the free world, he resents the compromises he must make with the authorities, who for one insipid reason or another, or perhaps just to show their authority, do not permit his art to take off in modes that displease them.\u00a0 Yet considering that his huge pallet is more gunpowder than canvas, you\u2019d think that the Chinese, having discovered gunpowder while searching for a product that would give them immortality (like so many products in U.S. health food stores nowadays), would be proud of any art that uses the substance\u2014which has been employed for good and evil for centuries.<\/p>\n

The title of the doc, \u201cSky Ladder,\u201d relates to the climactic project of Cai, one which concludes the film with a lavish display of pyrotechnics. For a long period, Cai dreamed of building a 500-meter-tall ladder with bamboo rungs held together by steel.\u00a0 This ladder, when lit up and lifted by a hot-air balloon, would be high enough to give the crowd the impression that it was leading to the heavens, and with a proper cloud formation, the sight would be awesome. This would be a treat for his 99-year-old grandmother, whom Cai reveres, and who he hoped to attend the display in her honor.\u00a0 Because of her illness, however she had to content herself with watching all on a tiny screen in a smartphone, just about the most reductive way to treat such a grand event.\u00a0 Ultimately the launch did take place in the wee hours of one morning and, after several cancellations because of bad weather or safety violations. Cai\u2019s ultimate dream is realized.<\/p>\n

\u201cSky Ladder\u201d is the sort of doc that might well be in the running for cinematography awards, as DPs Robert D. Yeoman and Florian Zinke capture the excitement of blazes of glory.\u00a0 The stunning exhibits opened and closed the 2008 Beijing Olympics<\/a>, but to the artist\u2019s frustrations, his exhibit for a conference of world economic leaders\u2014Obama and Putin in attendance\u2014is considered a failure because of political restrictions and controversies.<\/p>\n

The colorful, blazing displays are contrasted with some black-and-white archival films, most interestingly from the Cultural Revolution that lionized book-burning.\u00a0 When a teen, Cai actually joined the crowds, an example of the appeal of mob rule, in burning the possessions of his calligrapher\/painter father who had been criticized for spending all his money on books.\u00a0 Cai, however, expressed his energy more productively in igniting gunpowder to canvas, producing chaos as though to criticize the destructive policies of his government while at the same time getting away with his satiric messages.<\/p>\n

Even if you are indifferent to art in the sense of paintings and poetry, you might find sufficient entertainment value in this doc especially if you have been bored by conventional fireworks displays on New Year Eve.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 76 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall – B<\/strong><\/p>\n

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