The Galleria Torbandena in Trieste offers a tribute to Gao Xingjian's Painting with a Personal of selected works; this exhibition follows the first one, characterized by museum works, which was held in Trieste in 2002 and organized in collaboration with the Teatro Miela.

Born on 4th January 1940, he is the only Chinese writer who has ever been awarded a Nobel Prize (2000). Painter, novelist, play-writer, literary critic and renowned translator, he comes from Ganzhou, the Chinese province of Jangxi. After leaving his country for the west, he is now a French citizen and in 1992 he was nominated 'Chevalier' of arts and letters by the French Government. Gao Xingjian is today considered the main responsible of the process of evolution which, for some decades, led Chinese culture towards new horizons.

The new exhibition, dedicated by Galleria Torbandena to his art, presents a selection of works created between 1983 and 1993, a decade of radical changes in the life of the artist, marked first by his politic exile in Paris in 1987 and later, even more dramatically, by the massacre of Tien An Men in 1989, a tragic episode which influenced the minds and which brought him to his definitive break with the Chinese government. After the publication of The Runaways, inspired by the tragedy of Tien An Men, his works were prohibited everywhere in China and Gao was declared a non agreeable person by the Chinese authorities.

The works on show at the Galleria Torbandena, some twenty inks on rice-paper of great intensity painted between France and China, express quite clearly the dualism of Gao Xingjian's art: the strong influence of the Eastern Figurative Tradition techniques combined to the big passion for Western Contemporary Painting, a passion which has grown more evident in his more recent works and which is slowly leading him towards abstract painting.

The city of Marseille dedicated an entire summer of events to celebrate Gao's painting and literary art; the Center Reina Sofia in Madrid presented a Personal of his works in 2002.

Opening of the show Saturday March 26, 2005 at 7.00 pm.

Timetable: Monday 4 pm - 8.00 pm; Tuesday to Saturday: 10 am - 1.00 pm and 4 pm - 8.00 pm.

Go to the page of the artist