Beyond the Black
Visual Arts
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To celebrate Pierre Soulages’ 100th birthday, Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present the first ever solo exhibition in Hong Kong for the artist. This exhibition will showcase his recent works and is held as part of Le French May Arts Festival. The painter and sculptor Pierre Soulages is one of France’s most important artists, with an impressive career spanning over seven decades. He is known as a master of post-war abstraction, leader of Tachisme (the French counterpart to Action painting in the United States), and ‘the painter of black,’ owing to the hue’s unique properties as both a colour and a non-colour, and ability to represent the natural, opposing forces of order and disorder. Soulages has said, ‘My instrument is not black but the light reflected from the black.’ He sees light as a work material that reflects off of the ridges and textures of the blackness, allowing the black to emerge from its colour-void as a glossy and dynamic “colour” composed of organised light.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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