Gao Xing Jian

Before Dawn
Ink on Paper, 86 x 94 cm

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About the artwork

His paintings possess a kind of circular composition or brushwork that express the vagueness of time. Through eyes blurred by the ears of oppression, we still see the whirlpool-like sun. The "Yin and Yang divine night and day" has disappeared, and we have fallen directly into the darkness of the netherworld instead.



About the artist

Gao Xing Jian is a man who wears many hats - painter, novelist, playwright, translator, director, and critic - and is the first China-born recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000 since inception of the prize more than a hundred years ago. Born in Jiangxi Province of eastern China in 1940, Gao began painting as a child and at the age of ten, wrote and illustrated his first short story. He graduated from the Beijing Foreign Language Academy in 1962 with a major in French. In 1987, Gao left China to settle in Paris where he began a fruitful period of literary and artistic creation. Gao paints in Chinese ink and has had over thirty international exhibitions in such places as Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Paris, Marseille, Berlin, London, New York, Vienna Luxembourg, and Moscow. Gao evokes an inner vision of which the destruction of reality is a prerequisite. He also speaks of an inward gaze, "When I close my eyes I try to see things; within the darkness there are tones, glimmers, potentials of seeing, I try to capture what is barely perceptible - the seed of a picture."

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