Covering the entire body of work of Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013), this book reveals one of the artist's great obsessions: inventing new pictorial spaces constructed from his work on color and the representation of light.
And without ever departing, until the end of his life, from the lessons taught to him by the painting of Paul Cézanne.
Recalling his time at the Hangzhou School of Fine Arts on the shores of West Lake, Zao Wou-Ki writes: "I was fascinated by the multiplicity of space on the surface of the water, the lightness of the light or its thickness between the lake and the sky.
[…] What I was trying to see was space, its stretching and contortions, and the infinite complexity of a blue in the tiny reflection of a leaf on the water. I always asked myself the same questions: how to represent the wind? How to paint emptiness? And light, its clarity, its purity?
Zao Wou-ki. "It never gets dark."
In Fine| N° d'inventaire | 25987 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 176 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782382030394 |
Covering the entire body of work of Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013), this book reveals one of the artist's great obsessions: inventing new pictorial spaces constructed from his work on color and the representation of light.
And without ever departing, until the end of his life, from the lessons taught to him by the painting of Paul Cézanne.
Recalling his time at the Hangzhou School of Fine Arts on the shores of West Lake, Zao Wou-Ki writes: "I was fascinated by the multiplicity of space on the surface of the water, the lightness of the light or its thickness between the lake and the sky.
[…] What I was trying to see was space, its stretching and contortions, and the infinite complexity of a blue in the tiny reflection of a leaf on the water. I always asked myself the same questions: how to represent the wind? How to paint emptiness? And light, its clarity, its purity?