visit to the hospital

Ulrich wilmes, our chief curator, and I were this morning with Weiwei in the hospital in Munich. Weiwei looks great and is much relieved. The hospital personnel is amazingly willing and kind. With all the newspaper coverage they are beginning to understand what kind of fish they have in their tank. Weiwei is an easy and thankful patient, let alone his constant urge to communicate with everybody at once. Besides that Weiwei looked this morning like a beautiful, fresh, smiley Chinese fish, eyes wide open, pondering about the next move. Weiwei was also very reflective concerning the recent past. In an interview with Elena Foster, which took place last April in Madrid, Weiwei states: “i am a passionate person, so that is also why i burn my fingers so quickly. Therefore I’d rather be not that passionate. It became clear to me, recently, that this passion could destroy me or even bring me to hell”. We talked in the hospital about this and other predictions. In short, Weiwei well is.. o..so bored. He can’t wait to get back “to work” and to attend the Oktoberfest. But those things which happened will take time…at least time to heal. And that is how it should be. As far as the exhibition is concerned, things are going well. But for the moment that all does not matter that much. One more important thing: one of his team members carries a morning soup and a light dinner into the hospital, every day – homemade Chinese cooking of course.