It becomes a habit: checking out an exhibition on it’s closing day.(Remember Damien Hirst in London and Basqiat in Paris) This one, again, we couldn’t miss. From 18 November 2012 till 17 February 2013 (that’s today!), the Brussels Bourse hosted the landmark Terracotta Army exhibition : a reconstitution of the terracotta army of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang who became emperor at the age of 13 lost all track with reality and obsessed as he was by immortality, he ordered the built of a ‘dead city’ with an enormous army to join him when he died. This TERRACOTTA ARMY was the last great archaeological discovery of the 20th century after that of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The first pieces were found by Chinese farmers in 1974 and this spectacular 8000 terracotta statue army was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Over an area of 800 m², reconstructed to the original scale, we could see more than 150 warrior statues, horses and chariots and a look into the pit in …