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Cai Guo-Qiang at Normandie Impressioniste Festival

Posted: 12 May 2026

Cai Guo-Qiang, Computer rendering of *Radiance of Spring*: *Sky Painting for Normandie Impressionniste*. Courtesy Cai studio.

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29 May – 31 August 2026

Normandy, France

Cai Guo-Qiang presents a two-part project for the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, comprising a solo exhibition and a daytime fireworks performance, curated by Philippe Platel. Marking the centenary of Claude Monet’s passing, this year’s festival invites artists to respond to the legacy of the painter and his artistic inquiries into perception, time and nature.

Event details

29 May – 31 August 2026
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, France
‘Radiance of Spring’ features a new series of gunpowder paintings inspired by Monet's garden at Giverny, created by Cai in dialogue with the iconic architecture of the abbey and the landscape of Normandy.

31 May 2026
Vernon, France
A monumental daytime fireworks performance, titled Radiance of Spring: Sky Painting for Normandie Impressionniste, will mark the opening weekend of the festival, in which drone-launched blooms of coloured smoke will transform the sky into a canvas, along the banks of the Seine in Vernon.