Novelist, script writer, filmmaker and artist, multidisciplinary talent Gao Xingjian is renowned for his novels ‘Soul Mountain’ and ‘One Man’s Bible’, the former having won Gao the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. An artistic revolutionary who has transformed commonplace perceptions of the Chinese painter, Gao’s endeavours are starkly devoid of politics, sans ideology, with a willing exclusion of the publicised, identity stricken psyche that felled the artists of Gao’s generation- Creators who were told they could no longer create, and whose subsequent artworks reflected the angst and anxieties wrought from the country’s predicaments. Thus, Gao has demarcated a bleak line, distinguishing his pursuits from others; formulating a codex that favours humanity over materialism, individuality over politics, and self-speculation over extrinsic influences. iPRECIATION Singapore will be showcasing a Solo Exhibition of Gao Xingjian’s new Ink on Canvas paintings, at our gallery at the Fullerton Hotel, in March 2010.