Lao Mu & Meng Chunsheng — Mr. Mu Solo Exhibition

From 17 October to 11 November 2017 at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen (Jiangxi). A solo exhibition built around 「Meng Chunsheng」 — the alter-ego Mu Yuming dreamed into being on 4 June 2014, the first day of his three-year retreat in Kunming. Three years and three months later, this dream-born experiment took complete physical form in twenty days of preparation — echoing his 2000 Oslo project 《二十天》 across seventeen years.

The exhibition gathers high-temperature colored-glaze porcelain panel paintings 《察》《性》《节日》, pottery sculptures, mixed-media installations, and the full documentation of his ten-installment 「Conceptual Landscape」 (观念山水) fieldwork from Jingdezhen 2014. Six core works — Headless Torso, Mask Wall, Red Plastic Bag Wrap, Terracotta-style Head, Broken & Whole Juxtaposition, Double-Buddha Person Sandwich — anchor the room, paired with the Zen koans and field reports that gave them their source code. Mask is the central metaphor. Beuys, Yogācāra, Zhuangzi all walk through.

It was meant to end Mu Yuming's five years in Jingdezhen. Instead, the response was so strong that the show was extended by two weeks — and it opened another beginning.