I have read "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and a series of books by the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, in which the plots and sentences of life wisdom flash, often flash in my mind.
At that time, I still preferred a little bit of Mr. Milan · Kundera's erotic but philosophical works, especially his book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life". For this reason, 10 years ago I added Garcia to the background of this book. The magical colors in Mr. Márquez's book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" paint a series of works.
I don't read much, I like to read biographies of celebrities when I am young, and I focus on philosophy books as an adult, mainly because I like to investigate life itself. During the day, real affairs enter the brain through the ears and eyes to think, plan, and act; At night, everything in reality is often subverted and cleaned up by dreams, forming a pure free space-time without earth's gravity. Dreams are the habitat of the human spirit. Mr. Freud once wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams", and personally believed that dreams are unsolvable and do not need to be cracked, just like where do people come from? Where are you going?
Another question that intrigues me is whether the spirit is attached to the body and does not die, and whether the soul after being separated from the body can be immortal???
Maybe there will never be a solution or an answer.
The following text is the statement of Mr. Milan · Kundera.
In our world, ugliness has a positive function of its own. No one wants to stay anywhere for long, and once people stay in one place, they intend to leave immediately, which gives us an ideal rhythm in our lives.
If we can't change the world, then we should at least change our lives – to live freely.
From now on, I began to choose my life carefully, I no longer easily let myself be lost in all kinds of temptations, I have heard the call from afar in my heart, and I no longer need to look back and care about the rights and wrongs and discussions behind me. I don't have time to think about the past, I want to move forward.
The scariest thing about death is not that you lose your future, but that you lose your past. In fact, forgetting is a form of death that permeates the entire life.
Meeting is a matter of two people, but leaving is a decision of one person, meeting is a beginning, leaving is to meet the next one. It's a world where it's fashionable to leave, but we're not good at saying goodbye.
Life isn't worth living without a little madness. Let the voice of our hearts be guided, why should we fry our every action like a piece of bread on the frying pan of reason?
What cannot be endured in life is not existence, but the inability to discover oneself and become oneself.
Only when a person is old can he have no scruples about the people around him, the public, and the future. He was only in the company of the approaching Grim Reaper, who had neither eyes nor ears, and he had no need to please him; He can say what he likes to say and do what he likes.
I have no wings, but allow me to have tears, allow me to have heavy steps and desolate question marks.
(Text / Zhao Mengjun, 2024.07.29 in Mannheim, Germany)
(Source: Kassel Zhao Mengjun Studio)
Artist Profile
Zhao Mengjun, born in Qixia City, Shandong Province in 1961, graduated from Shandong Art Institute in 1985, artist in Germany, signed painter of Galerie Bernet Berram in Berlin, artist enjoying the double risk of Germany, currently lives and works in Kassel, Germany.
Part of the exhibition
1993 "Zhao Mengjun Solo Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2007 "Ten Years" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Beijing Hongzi Art Center, Beijing
2010 "Inside and Outside" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Shandong Kaiyuan Art Museum, Zibo
2011 "Inside" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Peking University Library, Beijing
2013 "Dream Shadow of Nantang" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Shandong News Art Museum
2018 "Traces of the Heart" Zhao Mengjun and Li Zhishuang Solo Exhibition
Berlin Chinese Cultural Center, Berlin
2019 "Dream Shadow of Nantang" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Galerie Bernet Bertram Berlin
"Zhao Mengjun's Works Return to China Report Exhibition"
Shandong News Art Museum, Jinan
2021 "Hearttraces" Zhao Mengjun Works Exhibition
Galerie Bernet Bertram.Berlin