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Zao Wou-Ki with Olivier Vanuxen |
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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 |
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and become definitively free. Zao Wou-Ki could very well share corbet's remark : " he swims deftly across rivers |
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where other classical painters drowned ". |
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Duality in intensity finally, because within the same period of time he alternately paints works where violence |
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and the earth are vigoorously expressed while in others silence and meditation prevail. Some suggest tigers |
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others babbling brooklets. Therefore in Zao Wou-Ki's paintings, no matter what the period or the size may |
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represent, the fracas or silence, paper or canvas, the painter as a lookout sentry does know that the quality of |
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a work is first and foremost based upon what he would not concede. May this short journey through the last fifty |
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years whisper in our ears what great painting should be : an insubordinate kingdom. |
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Olivier Vanuxen |
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Austria |
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Vienna | Graphische Sammlung Albertina | ||||
Belgium |
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Brussells | Royal Library Albert I° of Belgium | ||||
Royal Fine Arts Museums |
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Kruishouten |
Veranneman Foudation |
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Brazil |
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Rio de Janeiro |
Museum of Modern Art |
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Canada |
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Montréal |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Toronto |
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce |
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China |
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Hangzhou | Zyejiang Academy of Arts | ||||
Hong Kong | Hong Kong Museum of Art | ||||
Beijing | The Fragant Hills Hotel | ||||
National Institute of Fine Arts | |||||
England |
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Liverpool | The Tate Gallery | ||||
London | The Tate Gallery | ||||
Victoria and Albert Museum |
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Finland |
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Helsinki |
Athenum Museum |
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France |
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Châteauroux |
Bertrand Museum |
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Colmar |
Unterlinden Museum |
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Le Havre |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Lyon |
National Higher School | ||||
Metz |
Museum of Art and History |
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Montauban |
Ingres Museum |
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Orléans |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Paris |
Air France | ||||
National Library | |||||
National Fund of Contemporary Art | |||||
François Pinault Foundation |
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Gobelins National Factory | |||||
Savonnerie National Factory |
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Sèvres National Factory |
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Museum of Modern Art de la Ville de Paris |
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National Museum of Modern Art, Georges Pompidou Centre |
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The Counters Schlumberger Company |
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Total Frencn Petroleum Company | |||||
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Maeght Foudation |
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Tours |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Valence |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Germany |
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Essen |
Folkwang Museum |
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Indonesia |
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Djakarta |
Museum |
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Israel |
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Tel Aviv | Museum of Modern Art | ||||
Italy |
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Gênes | Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna | ||||
Milan | Galleria d'Arte Moderna | ||||
Japan |
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Fukuoka | Art Museum | ||||
fukushima | Art Museum | ||||
hakone-Machi | Hakone Open-Air Museum | ||||
Nagaoka |
Contemporary Art Museum |
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Osaka |
National Art Museum |
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Tokyo | Bridgestone Art Museum | ||||
The Fuji Telecating Co. Ltd. Collection | |||||
H. Imasato Collection | |||||
Kanichiro Ishibashi Collection | |||||
Nobutaka Shikamai Collection | |||||
Luxemburg |
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Luxembourg | Museum | ||||
Mexico |
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Mexico |
Culturel Center of Contemporary Art |
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Museum of Modern Art | |||||
Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum |
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Portugal |
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Lisbonne |
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
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Porto |
National Museum of Modern Art |
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Singapore |
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Singapore |
Raffles City | ||||
Spain |
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Barcelone |
Joan Mirò Foundation |
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Switzerland |
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Castagnola | Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection | ||||
Genève | Museum of Art and History, Gerld Cramer Foundation | ||||
Locarno | Nesto Jacometti Collection | ||||
Taiwan |
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Kaoshiung |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Tai-Chung | Art Museum | ||||
Taipei | History National Museum | ||||
Fine Arts Museum |
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U.S.A |
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Atlanta | Art Centre | ||||
Atlanta University | |||||
Hight Museum of Art | |||||
Cambridge |
Fogg Art Museum |
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Harward Université |
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Chicago | Institute of Art | ||||
Cincinnati | Art Museum | ||||
Cleveland | Oyahoga Savings, Association | ||||
Detroit |
Institute of Art |
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Hartford | Wadsworth Atheneum | ||||
Houston |
Fine Arts Museum |
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Ithaca | Hernert F. Johson Art Museum | ||||
Itthaca | Musée d'Art White | ||||
Kalamazoo | Upjohn Company Collection | ||||
Los Angeles | Berkeley University | ||||
Medical Research
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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 |
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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 |
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Washington | Hirshhorn Museum ans Sculpture Garden | ||||
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Yugoslavia |
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Skopje | Contemporary Art Museum | ||||
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