Zao Wou-Ki: Paper and China

Artist: Zao Wou-Ki Title: Zao Wou-Ki: Paper and China Author(s): Daniel Abadie Year: 2008 ISBN: 978-0-89797-351-9 Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Softcover, 9 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches, 56 pages, 36 color plates This catalogue is published on the occassion of the exhibition of china and works on paper by the preeminent Paris-based Chinese artist, Zao Wou-ki. The works on paper will be comprised of inks on paper executed in the last three years and ten large scale (approximately three and a half by five feet in length) color serigraphs. The works show a masterly control yet spontaneous fluidity of space, or what Daniel Abadie refers to in the catalogue’s essay as “breathing space.” Speaking of Zao’s approach to draw-ing he writes, “Being Chinese, he has always understood emptiness, the breathing space that is the real essence of traditional Asian painting…Zao sets up a “dream space” that is infused with breath, to use François Cheng’s magnificent expression for this fundamen