Cai Guo Qiang The Spirit of Painting (2017)

Cai GuoQiang at the Prado Museum. A reflection on the conversation between Cai GuoQiang and the Prado masters, a dream the artist has been chasing for a long time. Through his emotional and intimate voice over, we will listen to his thoughts and investigations on painting. We will see how the past is expressed in the present and the former connects with the latter, reinterpreting both. We will feel the close link between art and spirituality. We will be moved by the images, the purity of colors, the smell of gunpowder, the details of every painting, the sensuality of the uncontrollable explosions, the afternoon light entering in the Salón de Reinos, the beauty of all as a whole and the agitation of the magical moment within the end of an artwork that goes beyond the screen. Directed by Isabel Coixet, 2017.