Last month opened a large-scale exhibition at “The Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art,” curated by New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

He invited 18 Chinese and Taiwanese artists to make their own installations in Kinmen County, Taiwan. The island, Taiwan’s closest outpost to mainland China, saw many bloody battles during the last century and is still covered by 2,000 bunkers and probably also by millions of landmines.

Cai, who grew up listening to the sounds of fighter planes in the nearby Quanzhou in Fujian Province, had long hoped to replace war with art. The museum was years in the making, due to political sensitivities and Cai hopes that, in the future, international artists will come and exhibit their work, eventually making Kinmen the art center of Asia.

Via Archinect < Artnet.