Artist field note

Zao Wou-Ki

Chinese space and European abstraction meet without becoming either one.

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Juin-Octobre 1985 by Zao Wou-Ki — Example from the series
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Juin-Octobre 1985

1985

A monumental triptych turns movement, void and light into an immersive environment.

The five in one idea

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