Rhythm of China (The)

Historias De Carres > Autumn-Winter 2010

The story of this carre is that of a meeting. During the course of one of his journeys, Pierre-Alexis Duma, the artistic director of Hermes, discovered the work of the Chinese artist Ding Yi and, full of admiration, invited him to Paris. The artist, on his return to China, sent him this picture, which is a carre … The vibration of a city is what is evoked by this painting. The apparent simplicity of these alignments of little coloured stars recalls, in turn, the verticality of the sky-scrapers, the gleaming of the lights or the intensity of the traffic, which knows no respite. The soul of modern China is revealed here in an abstract, whose rhythm captures the gaze and whose colours awaken each other in a vital and uninterrupted shimmering.