Artists Showcase: Painter Mengchen Zhang, Reborn & Awaken From Near-Death Experience, Celebrates Life with Art
Reborn in a car accident, a life-conscious awakener learns to embrace life, and celebrate it with her art, passion and experience. It’s no other than Painter Mengchen Zhang to join the “Medici Support Program” and Revival NFT Marketplace.
Story of a Survivalist- Celebrating Every Day Life with Art
After the wandering between life and death, Mengchen Zhang learns to cherish every single day of her life. She hopes to use her paintings to record and celebrate the small little things in life so that there is nothing to fear when the actual deadline of life comes.
Mengchen Zhang just got her master’s degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. However, a car accident in the next year almost ended her painting career and even took her life away. She was in a coma for two weeks. Mengchen was conscious sometimes, but she couldn’t open her eyes no matter how hard she tried. She was sacred and terrified.
Mengchen kept thinking about the magnificent places she had visited, the biggie had known, the first pot of gold she had earned. She thought of the people she loved and the ones who loved her back. She owned such a perfect life. Yet all of this would become nothing if she couldn’t wake up and live anymore. Everyone who ever has a near-death experience knows how precious it is just to be alive!
After recovering from her accident, she began to create her own “Life Diary,” simply recording the moments that moved her every day. She hopes that she wouldn’t be alone and fearful longer when she gets to take off. She can truly feel the day she has lived on earth. It’s the original intention of her “Life Diary” creation, without any gorgeous packaging, just the purest and most authentic nostalgia for life.
“It is my ultimate dream to express the awakening of life by painting. It is not only necessary to awake mentally, but also to be in awe, peace, equality, tolerance, and gratitude for life physically.”
“It’s better to get people awaken to life at an early age. Only by realizing the preciousness and uniqueness of their own life can one realize from loving oneself to loving others, to have a sense of mission to convey love, and to realize the fragility of life then hold gratitude for nature and parents. Those can interestingly be accomplished by writing a life diary through calligraphy, painting, and graffiti, strengthening the survival consciousness, and painting and creating boutiques with her unique experience, passion, and compassion.”
Profile of Mengchen Zhang
Formerly known as Zhang Mengyuan, growing up in Qingdao
- 2012. Graduated from the Oil Painting Material Studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree
- 2012 Cooperated with the American international art company Rosea Fineart as a proxy artist
- 2013 Cooperated with Beijing Parkview Green Art Gallery
- 2014 Study Tour in Paris Academy of Fine Arts
- 2015 Cooperated with Hong Kong Lucie Chang Dine Arts as a proxy artist
- 2016 Participated in the China Open as an artistic consultant and ambassador 2017–2020 Selected as an art ambassador of the Chinese Open, organized and led a Tibet charity trip for qualified children nationwide
Personal Exhibition Experience
- 2013 Participated in the New York Art Fair
- 2014 “The Dignity of Life” was selected for the 11th National Art Exhibition and exhibited nationwide
- 2014 Participated in the Miami Expo
- 2015 Solo Exhibition “Curtain” in Versailles, France
- 2015 Participated in the “Broken Atlas Collection of Chinese Contemporary Artists’ Methods of Processing Images” in Beijing Sishang Art Museum
- 2015 Solo exhibition “Awakening from Dream” at Hong Kong Lucie Chang Dine Arts Gallery
- 2017 Solo Exhibition “Window and Curtain” at Kaiyuan Space Gallery, Munich, Germany
Collection of Works & Awards
- 2012 “Depression and Happiness” was collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum
- 2012 The Central Academy of Fine Arts retained Graduation works
- 2013 Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum collected the artwork”Chaos”
- 2014 “Mother and Son” was auctioned and collected by Borman in Versailles, France
- 2014 “The Dignity of Life” was selected for the 11th National Art Exhibition
Mengchen Zhang’s NFTs series is coming to Revival Marketplace soon. Stay tuned!
About Revival NFT Marketplace
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