Exhibition in Aix: Zao Wou-ki, the passenger of the wind

It's the summer break.

Outside, the sun, the movement, the noise, the others.

Inside, a flood of light dispersed with pleasure by Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013), which gives everyone the feeling of being alone in nature, poetry book in hand.

A moment of pure contemplation that you taste slowly.

Here it is in nearly 80 works from 1935 to 2009 from public and private collections, especially French and somewhat Swiss: immaterial oils on canvas that pay tribute to Cézanne, Matisse, Riopelle, Josep Lluis Sert, architect of his workshop in Ibiza;

first miniature watercolors so close to Paul Klee, then vast like abstract expressionism;

India inks on paper after mourning and withdrawal.

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