Li Zhi’s voyage into the mountains opens up a world of voids. He finds himself a traveller, a traveller contemplating and observing motionlessly in front of the mountains of China. He traveled 150 kilometers in rising mountains with deep roots, feeling the meandering lines that resemble the “abstraction of movements” in the paintings of great masters.

What these 600 kilometers of mountains to him is what the 20 kilometers of scenery was to Cezanne. The abstract lines, surfaces in transformation, details blurred in the water or in the air, and the beautiful chasms all represent us from different sides: inside, backside, profile and front. Thanks to their eyes, Nature and the silent Buddha gently reveals everything before us. “Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible” replied Paul Klee.

- N.Garrigou