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Meng Xianglong Solo Exhibition

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Meng Xianglong’s Art of Painting

The Buddhist believers stress karma, which are a familiar theme in the eastern culture: in such a vast universe and such six trillion population, without karma we just pass by as strangers, and if we have, we will meet again even after many years. I know Meng Xianglong some years ago when he featured his oil paintings in Beijing, which impressed me very much. I am happy to be asked to write a preface for his present exhibition after ten years later. What a wonder!

Meng Xianglong’s studio is located in an ancient city – Xuanhua, to the north of Beijing. When I entered, some of his works were still in draft, waiting for applying paints. Nevertheless, when those completed works were placed one by one before me, I was lightened by what they are like a bright light penetrating my body, feeling fresh and transparent, seeming indulged into a pool of clear water reflecting every dirty pores. In the paintings besides lotus, ruyi, clouds, rain, ladders, masks, Buddha, and light columns are the pure sky, showing a kind of spiritual imagery. Meng calls these works Wonderful Insight. Except this, no any word, but for the seers to feel them. His every painting acts as a Buddhist hymn, as an epitome of ancient mysterious culture of naturalist worship. Shadows, lines, colors are organically combined, symbols and significance are perfectly unified for elevating the seers’ aesthetic experience to trans-historical space and time, then to forever and unlimitedness. Thus, the purity, equality, and sublimity are perceived. Indeed, this is a series of superrealist paintings with the themes of Buddhist world. Buddha means instant enlightenment. In the nirvana, it refers to no-life-no-death, in the self-examination, it directs to spiritual unlimitedness. The painter tries to describe all these symbolism to express subjective emotions as to create a forever moment. All these paintings remind me of the new exploration by modern scientists of the gene

Contributed by lucyhan

8 months ago