Zhao Wuji’s abstract wild grass series masterpiece 29.09.64. In the 1960s, which is the largest and most important in his private collection It will debut at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on May 26, leading Christie’s Hong Kong 20th and 21st Century Art Evening auction.
The 1960s was a new stage in Zhao Wuji’s creation, marking an important chapter in his artistic creation and personal life. 《29.09.64.》 The delicate and rapid black-and-white strokes in the center of the picture perfectly reflect Zhao Wuji’s profound knowledge of Chinese calligraphy and painting, while the sky and sea are as blue as the raging sea, witnessing the artist’s quest for abstract art. After the artist moved into the larger studio on the rongguwa street in Montparnasse, Paris, he began to experiment on large canvases for the first time. After Zhao Wuji began to create on the canvas with a more magnificent scale, he immediately obtained a more free space to play the tension between himself and the canvas to the extreme. 《29.09.64.》 With its huge scale and unique passionate composition in the 1960s, the viewer immediately fell into its majestic momentum.
“《29.09.64.》 It has a large scale and a prominent source. It is the scale and theme specially customized by the father of the original Collector - a famous French architect and Zhao Wuji’s friend and bole. “ Said Zhang Dingyuan, chairman of Christie’s Asia Pacific Department of 20th and 21st century art.
Art circles generally believe that the 1960s is a new stage in Zhao Wuji’s creation It presents the essence of this period, integrates the abstract expressionism of Western painting in the form of Chinese cursive between landscape, calligraphy and painting, and creates a new road for modern oriental art. (Pan Weiqian)