Cai Guo-Qiang: Impromptu Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires December 14, 2014–March 8, 2015 Role: Project & On-Site Assistant Impromptu is the internationally-renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Argentina. The artist’s chosen title for the exhibition—IMPROMPTU—reflects an approach akin to the musical and choreographic creativity he witnessed in tango and other manifestations of Argentinian culture. The exhibition features three large-scale landscape gunpowder drawings inspired by his visit to Northern Argentina (Misiones and Salta); a series of gunpowder paintings inspired by the wild lives in Argentina, tango, and Southern European religious paintings; as well as a ceramic installation using locally made terracotta that is suspended between Proa’s café and bookstore. Several components of the exhibition were produced in public view with the assistance of students from Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) and from the Instituto Municipal de Cerámica de Avellaneda. This open artistic approach engages chance and the participation of local volunteers as a key component of the final result. In a way, the process itself becomes an intercultural dialogue and an “event” directed by a master of ceremonies, one with an IMPROMTU nature due to the unpredictability of the elements at play.