PhillipsX, the selling exhibition platform operated by the global Private Sales team at Phillips, is pleased to present Zao Wou-Ki: Infinite Dialogues from 6-29 March. This selling exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to encounter Zao’s oeuvre in dialogue with works by artists with whom he shared profound affinities, including Hans Hartung, Georges Mathieu, Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and others. Featuring a remarkable selection of paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and prints spanning more than seven decades of creation, the exhibition highlights the dynamic exchanges between East and West in the postwar era. Coinciding with Phillips’ West Kowloon neighbor M+’s Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker, it extends a unique moment for audiences to rediscover the artist’s legacy in depth.

Zao Wou-Ki’s remarkable career was profoundly shaped by his years in Paris from the late 1940s onward, when he became immersed in a circle of artists whose ideas nurtured his reflections on painting and abstraction. In 1951, only three years after his arrival in Paris, Zao began exhibiting at the avant‑garde Galerie Pierre alongside leading abstract artists of the time, including Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Georges Mathieu, Jacques Germain, and Jean‑Paul Riopelle—who would go on to become his lifelong friend. Friendships proved pivotal for his career: poet Henri Michaux introduced gallerist Pierre Loeb to Zao in the early 1950s, while Pierre Soulages later connected him with influential New York dealer Sam Kootz, who began representing Zao in 1957. These encounters formed a rich tapestry of artistic exchange, underscoring the networks that propelled his career and the dialogues between East and West that lie at the heart of this exhibition.

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