Minghao Xu
Born 1983 in Beijing, China, grown up in Germany. After graduation at first study in art history, philosophy and English studies at the University RWTH Aachen, afterwards study in "Visual Communications" at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht. Diploma in Video/Film.
Since my childhood art and creativity have become an essential part of my life. During regular stays in China, I have been taught the craft of drawing and painting by several professors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. As a teenager I discovered the joy of making music and am playing Guitar and Cello since.
An early encounter with the phenomenon of Harmonic Singing and a particular fascination for sound instruments (monochord, singing bowls etc.) have influenced my development strongly: On the one hand as an active member of Manyala Milam (shamanic trance music) I began to experiment with the effects of sound, on the other hand I started to engage myself with harmonics from all different kind of views.
When I was twenty, I had a crucial spiritual experience, which influenced and changed my life strongly and also became determinant for my spiritual as well as artistic and professional development. The study of different religions, believe systems, the realization of their commonalities and differences, especially their origin being the same primordial creation-source, as well as my own experiences and discoveries have become the most important source of inspiration.
The main focus of my artistic work today is the exploration of the "Patterns of Creation". In trying to make the invisible visible, I find my personal fascination, my spiritual identity and my learnt abilities wonderfully merged together. These aspects of the "Patterns of Creation" such as fractals, harmonics and sacred geometry are being explored and presented within the project Void Visuals.
As a filmmaker I am also attracted to the topics related to spirituality, consciousness and self-awareness. Under the label Mind Moving Pictures topics concerning the paradigm shift and the new age, are being treated and published in form of documentaries and experimental movies. Through the medium of film I see the possibility of combining image, sound and movement in such a way that it opens up new experience realms. At the same time it offers a universal medium of expression, which enables us to choose, depict and communicate every topic imaginable.
From Vision to Creativity
During the time in which I was busy with art, music, philosophy and spirituality, there were two things which started to fascinate me more and more: the topics fractals and harmonics. In both topics I felt something very primordial and utmost truthful and I always had the feeling that through them I could gain deep insights into the great mystery of life and existence. Their integrating power seemed to me like a guidepost into the future, where all the shattered disciplines of human endeavor rejoin and where aesthetic, science and spirituality are again united as one.
Even though both the fractals and the harmonics seem to be emerging from the very same primordial principles, for a long time I couldn't find the connection between them, until one day I came across a third topic, which intrigued me equally: Sacred Geometry.
On first sight it seemed to be an extra field of knowledge by itself, which to study thoroughly, the time and passion of an entire human life would be necessary. Nevertheless I felt that it was leading into the same direction, in which the other two topics were also pointing, and so I engaged myself with it. After several months I suddenly realized that the fractal system as well the harmonic proportions are direct information systems from the Flower of Life - in a wonderful way the missing element was revealed to me, which underlies all the topics I was busy with during the years. They are the "patterns of creation", the information systems encoded in the flower of life and the related levels of creation and dimensions of consciousness, which I want to explore, experience and express with my art.
The media, which are used to create artworks, always change depending on location, culture and time periods. Today there is a great number of media available to us that we can use to express our thoughts and experiences. Fine Arts and music accompanied my entire life and through the medium film I found a possibility to combine both. Through these media I now try to make the "patterns of creation" visible, audible and experience-able, which are usually hidden from our outer senses.
It seems to me that we human have long enough torn, analyzed and pulled the world apart, whether in science or in art. With my artistic work I wish to refer to the entire picture and put the holistic-whole and holy into focus again. Hence it is my aim to connect the knowledge and experience of all different disciplines through the expression of different media, in order to make possible a direct experience of the existence of other creation and consciousness levels.
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