YU ZHAO

COURSE AND ARTISTIC APPROACH

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Yu Zhao is a painter specializing in abstraction. Her painting aims to be a pre-historical field of writing.

Yu Zhao turns back the clock to capture the source image of the art of the brush.
Born in Beijing and living in France for the past 20 years, Yu Zhao has received dual training in Western and Chinese arts. Her approach is inspired by contemporary dance and its philosophy.

At the same time, the artist has been passionately researching the writings of ancient Chinese pictorial art. their reflections have become the sources of truth for her creation.

According to the ancient Chinese masters, each calligraphic stroke was compared to a "surreal" image.

His painting is thus a place of experimentation and meditation. Beneath an identical style, each painting reveals a unique universe. 
Yu Zhao's main medium is tempera (egg paint), an ancestral Western technique used by Italian artists of the Renaissance, notably in the art of icons, but also by the great modern masters (Klee, Picasso Rothko...).

Akin to a wash, tempera produces transparent, luminous flashes. Mythical and spiritual, it is also one of the most solid and durable of all paints.

Yu Zhao paints on thick watercolor or design paper, which is then mounted on canvas.

TECHNICAL

Tempera on paper mounted on canvas.

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