Artist field note

Zao Wou-Ki

Chinese space and European abstraction meet without becoming either one.

Appears inChina

01 / 05

Hommage à Edgar Varèse

1964

Explosive marks and deep space translate experimental music into a field of painted energy.

The five in one idea

Zao Wou-Ki made abstraction a place where different pictorial civilizations could genuinely transform one another.