Cai Guo-Qiang Wolves

Head On – Cai Guo-Qiang

Alright, so, I hunted the whole internet for high quality pictures of this installation to link to, but apparently hardly anything over 500 px exists. Anyway this is a pretty crazy one.

The wolves were produced in Quanzhou, China, from January to June of 2006. The commissioned local workshop in Cai’s hometown specializes in manufacturing remarkable, life-sized replicas of animals. First, small clay models were created as movement studies, out of which Cai subsequently developed Head On’s artist editions of cast resin wolves. However, the realistic and lifelike 99 wolves that grew out of these models and drawings possess no literal remnants of wolves: they are fabricated from painted sheepskins and stuffed with hay and metal wires, with plastic lending contour to their faces and marbles for eyes.

Cai Guo-Qiang’s Website

This dude’s website is worth checking out, he has an unbelievable amount of work spanning from ”88 – ’08

via TheColonel