ZAO WOU-KI | 赵无极 | CHINESE NEW ART

ZAO WOU-KI 赵无极




	Zao Wou-Ki with Olivier Vanuxen

	Any great syory is about a route or duality. Zao Wou-Ki's incorporates both. Has a young figurative painter
	he was Paul Klee's friend and the landscapes he painted then were bathed in din light. In those little prexious
	water colours the world was contained in a nutshell. One witnesses the figurative representation of the world
	gradually fading into signs whish were swept away in turn by the gesture and inspiring forces in the visible as
	well as the invisible. To this day this is the significance of his art.		.
	Duality between two different cultures. First, he exorcises the idea of exile in order to expel any link to exoyicism
	and become definitively free. Zao Wou-Ki could very well share corbet's remark : " he swims deftly across rivers
	where other classical painters drowned ".
	Duality in intensity finally, because within the same period of time he alternately paints works where violence
	and the earth are vigoorously expressed while in others silence and meditation prevail. Some suggest tigers
	others babbling brooklets. Therefore in Zao Wou-Ki's paintings, no matter what the period or the size may
	represent, the fracas or silence, paper or canvas, the painter as a lookout sentry does know that the quality of
	a work is first and foremost based upon what he would not concede. May this short journey through the last fifty
	years whisper in our ears what great painting should be : an insubordinate kingdom.

	Olivier Vanuxen

	Collections

	Austria

	Vienna	Graphische Sammlung Albertina
	Belgium

	Brussells	Royal Library Albert I° of Belgium
		Royal Fine Arts Museums
	Kruishouten	Veranneman Foudation

	Brazil

	Rio de Janeiro	Museum of Modern Art

	Canada

	Montréal	Fine Arts Museum
	Toronto	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

	China

	Hangzhou	Zyejiang Academy of Arts
	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Museum of Art
	Beijing	The Fragant Hills Hotel
		National Institute of Fine Arts
	England

	Liverpool	The Tate Gallery
	London	The Tate Gallery
		Victoria and Albert Museum
	Finland

	Helsinki	Athenum Museum
	France

	Châteauroux	Bertrand Museum
	Colmar	Unterlinden Museum
	Le Havre	Fine Arts Museum
	Lyon	National Higher School
	Metz	Museum of Art and History
	Montauban	Ingres Museum
	Orléans	Fine Arts Museum
	Paris	Air France
		National Library
		National Fund of Contemporary Art
		François Pinault Foundation
		Gobelins National Factory
		Savonnerie National Factory
		Sèvres National Factory
		Museum of Modern Art de la Ville de Paris
		National Museum of Modern Art, Georges Pompidou Centre
		The Counters Schlumberger Company
		Total Frencn Petroleum Company
		Maeght Foudation
	Tours	Fine Arts Museum
	Valence	Fine Arts Museum
	Germany

	Essen	Folkwang Museum
	Indonesia

	Djakarta	Museum
	Israel

	Tel Aviv	Museum of Modern Art
	Italy

	Gênes	Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna
	Milan	Galleria d'Arte Moderna
	Japan

	Fukuoka	Art Museum
	fukushima	Art Museum
	hakone-Machi	Hakone Open-Air Museum
	Nagaoka	Contemporary Art Museum
	Osaka	National Art Museum
	Tokyo	Bridgestone Art Museum
		The Fuji Telecating Co. Ltd. Collection
		H. Imasato Collection
		Kanichiro Ishibashi Collection
		Nobutaka Shikamai Collection
	Luxemburg

	Luxembourg	Museum
	Mexico

	Mexico	Culturel Center of Contemporary Art
		Museum of Modern Art
		Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum
	Portugal

	Lisbonne	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
	Porto	National Museum of Modern Art
	Singapore

	Singapore	Raffles City

	Spain
	Barcelone	Joan Mirò Foundation
	Switzerland

	Castagnola	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
	Genève	Museum of Art and History, Gerld Cramer Foundation
	Locarno	Nesto Jacometti Collection
	Taiwan

	Kaoshiung	Fine Arts Museum
	Tai-Chung	Art Museum
	Taipei	History National Museum
		Fine Arts Museum
	U.S.A

	Atlanta	Art Centre
		Atlanta University
		Hight Museum of Art
	Cambridge	Fogg Art Museum
		Harward Université
	Chicago	Institute of Art
	Cincinnati	Art Museum
	Cleveland	Oyahoga Savings, Association
	Detroit	Institute of Art
	Hartford	Wadsworth Atheneum
	Houston	Fine Arts Museum
	Ithaca	Hernert F. Johson Art Museum
	Itthaca	Musée d'Art White
	Kalamazoo	Upjohn Company Collection
	Los Angeles	Berkeley University
		Medical Research Centre
	Maine	Coldby Art Museum
	Minneapolis	Walker Art Centre
	New Haven	Yale University Art Gallery
	New York	Finch Art College Museum
		The Museum of Modern Art
		The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
	Pittsburgh	Carnegie Institute
	Richmond	University of Virginia Art Museum
		Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
	Ridgefield	Aldrich "old 100" Collection
	San Francisco	Asian Art Museum
		The Avery Bundage Collection
		Museum of Modern Art
	St Thomas	Virgin Island Museum
	Standford	International Minerals and Chemical Corporation
		Standford University
	Waltham	Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
	Washington	Hirshhorn Museum ans Sculpture Garden

	Yugoslavia

	Skopje	Contemporary Art Museum




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