Opening to a large garden, itself a place for temporary exhibitions, the Dixon Gallery is the best location to present Zao Wou-Ki’s late works. Actually, while he has painted all his life in the protected space of his studio, without models and deliberately avoiding any outward view, Zao Wou-Ki realizes from the mid-2000s his watercolors, outside in the open air, in the gardens of the Lantern in Versailles, in Ibiza, Saint-Tropez, in his Parisian garden or in front of cut flowers. Painting with a renewed freedom, he devotes himself to the color, the light and the play of transparencies that the dilution of the watercolor allows him to explore. This technical gesture probably reminds him of that of India ink, some of which are also exhibited at the Dixon Gallery. Taking flowers or landscapes as a source of inspiration, Zao Wou-Ki does not abandon abstraction, mixing colors and shapes in luminous and colorful works that reconnect with the very essence of nature.