After taking Hong Kong's avid readers by storm on his visit in 2000, Nobel prize-winning writer Gao Xingjian is to stir up fervour among art lovers in an exhibition next week. Alisan Fine Arts gallery - owned by Alice King, the younger sister of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa - will hold an exhibition between October 3 and 26 to showcase about a dozen of Gao's paintings.

However, Gao (below), a dissident living in France whose work is banned on the mainland, will be too busy to show up.

All the works are in black and white. A Taiwanese arts museum curator has described them as being 'philosophical, contemporary and poetic with a great deal of mystery'.