GAO XINGJIAN (B. 1940)
At the End of the Day
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
96.5 x 150 cm. (38 x 59 in.)
Executed in 1997
GAO XINGJIAN (B. 1940)
At the End of the Day
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
96.5 x 150 cm. (38 x 59 in.)
Executed in 1997
Acquired by the present owner from Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong.
GAO XINGJIAN (B. 1940) Selected exhibitions
2013 The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA (solo)
2010 Casal Solleric, Fundacio Palma Espai d'Art , Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
2009 Musee de l'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Li?ge, Belgium (solo)
2008 ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2007 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (solo)
Ludwig Museum of Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany (solo)
2006 Museum of Fine Art, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (solo)
2003 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium (solo)
2002 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2001 National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
1997 Schimmel Center for the Arts Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Gao Xingjian was born in 1940 in Ganzhou, China and practised calligraphy as a child. He studied French Literature at the Foreign Languages Institute in Beijing and in the late 1970s he worked as a playwright at the People's Art Theatre. Gao relocated to Paris in 1987 to continue his career in the arts and in 2000 he was crowned Nobel Laureate of Literature. Inspired by Renaissance paintings, Gao employs his understanding of the source of light in western art and black-and-white photography to Chinese ink works. His techniques are developed from Chinese calligraphy and expressive (xieyi) painting, yet his art characteristically depicts textures which are absent in traditional ink paintings. His paintings are "depictions of the inner mind" and are situated "between figurative and abstract." His art has a sense of the real and the surreal: the seemingly abstract landscapes and human forms resonate as identifiable images in the memories of the viewer.
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