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Gao Xingjian was born in Jiangxi province, China in 1940 and is a renowned author, playwright, painter, photographer, film and stage director. In 2000, he was the first individual of Chinese descent to receive the Noble Prize for Literature, a source of considerable pride in the Chinese speaking world.

Last year, Gao held a number of major exhibitions across Europe. In early 2015, there was A Gao Xingjian Retrospective at the Museum of Ixelles and The Awakening of Consciousness at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Belgium, which added six works from the series to its permanent collection. At …