Zao Wou-Ki/Henri Michaux

China–West

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It was in 1949 that Henri Michaux, a painter and poet born in Wallonia in 1899, discovered the lithographs of Zao Wou-Ki (1920–2013), a Chinese painter and printmaker who would go on to become one of the leading figures of lyrical abstraction.

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The two artists soon became friends and remained so until Michaux’s death in 1984. By juxtaposing Zao Wou-Ki’s sumptuous ink and watercolour works with Henri Michaux’s mysterious calligraphic landscapes, the exhibition creates a marvellous dialogue between their works, giving pride of place to the mark and the sign beyond the void and the invisible.

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Until 31 October.

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