Since 1994, Alisan Fine Arts has been representing Gao Xingjian in Hong Kong. The gallery organised Gao’s first solo exhibition in 1996, and subsequently in1998, and 2002, and finally in 2004 in New York. Featuring 25 new ink paintings, this exhibition is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition presented by our gallery. Encounters with artists who master as many disciplines as convincingly and intensely as Gao does are most infrequent. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he has signified during decades the necessity to make literature his second land of exile within himself. Gao’s artworks, on the other hand, use another language, one that is deeper than words. He describes his works that often recall landscapes and cosmic processes as shadows that have emerged from his deepest self and could not be rendered by anything else but in ink. The artist will be present at the opening, and Mr. Jean-Pierre Thébault, French Consul General of Hong Kong and Macau, will be inaugurating the exhibition.
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