主办单位：  保利文化北美投资有限公司
                  高更文化传媒有限责任公司
承       办： 温哥华保利艺术馆
协       办： 加拿大七百荣誉基金
Organizers :  Poly Culture North America Investment Co.,Ltd.
                   Beijing Gauguin Culture Media Co.,Ltd.
Sponsor ：   Poly Culture ArtCenter
Co-Organizer： Canada Seven HundredHonour Foundation
          
总 策 划： 陈宜、Amelia Gao
学术主持：傅怡静
策 展 人： 董慧萍
ChiefPlanners : Chen Yi、Amelia Gao
AcademicDirector：Fu Yijing
Curator : Dong Huiping

“花样年华——中加女性艺术家作品联展”绽放温哥华保利艺术馆

2017年12月12日， “花样年华——中加女性艺术家作品联展” 在温哥华保利艺术馆隆重开幕，如冬日暖阳，温暖绽放于美丽的温哥华。

中国驻加拿大温哥华领事馆副总领事孔玮玮先生、文化领事胡晓，加拿大文化遗产部西部区域主管Erica Tao，前国会议员、前素里市市长、现BC省自由党候选人Dianne Watts女士，保利文化北美董事总经理陈宜，加拿大七百荣誉基金发起人、温哥华美术馆董事、展览总策划高爱红，中国天津工业大学硕士生导师、中央美术学院美术馆静态影像负责人、本次展览策展人董慧萍副教授，中国中央美术学院人事处副处长、展览学术主持傅怡静博士出席展览开幕式并致辞。中国艺术家吕越教授、余陈教授，加拿大艺术家Marianna Gartner, Frances Semple, Carollyne Yardley作为参展艺术家代表出席了开幕仪式。BC省省长John Horgan先生发来了贺信，对画展的开幕表示祝贺。出席开幕式的嘉宾还有温哥华美术馆馆长Kathleen Bartel女士、Art Umbrella CEO Paul Larocque等艺术界同仁及加拿大CHP国家领导人Rod Taylor等政要。

展览由保利文化北美投资有限公司和北京高更文化传媒有限责任公司共同主办，温哥华保利艺术馆承办，加拿大七百荣誉基金协办。28位中国、加拿大知名女性艺术家67件（组）作品参展，中方著名艺术家如蔡锦、陈曦、崔岫闻、董慧萍、高茜、耿雪、姜杰、纪玉洁、康雷、吕越、彭薇、申玲、邵亦杨、滕菲、王利敏、肖鲁、肖戈、肖素红、余陈、张凡、周岚、章燕紫，加方著名艺术家有Dorothy Knowles、Emily Carr、Frances Semple、Marianna Gartner、Rita Letendre、Carollyne Yardley。

作为此次展览总策划，保利文化北美董事总经理陈宜女士表示：“希望本展成为一个开端和桥梁，不断促进中加两国女性艺术家进行更多的交流和对话、促进当地文化市场的稳定与繁荣、推动国际文化交流与发展。”同为展览总策划的高爱红女士也谈到，作为加拿大七百荣誉基金的发起人,她觉得“自己有责任、有义务去搭建一座中加艺术交流的桥梁，希望华人在加拿大多元文化的舞台上发挥更大的作用,让中国优秀的文化成为加拿大多元文化中重要的组成部分”。

副总领事孔玮玮先生高度赞誉了本次展览对中加艺术交流的重大意义，并表示艺术和音乐都是没有国界的，期待展览能将这些优秀的女性艺术家和作品引入大众视野，给大家带来至美至纯的艺术享受。

毕业于中央美院设计学院研究生数码媒体专业的董慧萍副教授担任本次展览策展人，在开幕式致辞中说到：感恩10年前加拿大多伦多大学的邀请，作为20年来亚州唯一获邀的多伦多大学麦克卢汉文化与技术中心的访问学者，到访中心学习麦克卢汉的原创媒介理论，2007年把麦克卢汉媒介理论的钥匙带回中国，开启了“媒介与文化”的学术研究及课程教学，10年后在恰逢加拿大建国150周年之际，给加拿大观众带来了以“媒介与艺术”为策展理念的“花样年华—中加女性艺术作品联展”，以展览的特殊方式诠释了麦克卢汉“媒介即身体的延伸”的理论。

董慧萍副教授强调：本展是中加两国著名女性艺术家作品首次在温哥华同台亮相，是“花样年华——女性艺术家艺术形态生长展”北京站的一个延伸。展览的特别之处在于：从中国及加拿大参展艺术家的作品中洞察到两国当代女性艺术发展的脉络。时跨近百年，艺术的媒介不断地延伸与演变，女性艺术家以一种特殊的表达方式回应并见证了这个时代的发展。本展囊括了加拿大著名艺术家EmilyCarr等的多幅作品，也可从展览作品中看到中加两国女性艺术家们在原创媒介理论家马歇尔.麦克卢汉描述的“地球村”中，创造了受20世纪欧洲现代及后现代艺术深刻影响但同时又具有鲜明风格及本土文化特征的艺术。

展览学术主持傅怡静博士充分肯定了该展三大价值：一、独出心裁地以中加当代女性艺术家的艺术形态生长的真实呈现为展览核心，展示出一种不同于男性的经验感知、思维创作方式，凸显出当代女性艺术独立的美学品格与精神指向。二、展览广涉多种艺术形式，国画、油画、版画、雕塑、影像艺术、首饰设计、服装设计等艺术门类集聚一堂，多渠道、多层次、多面貌的艺术萃取方式，流光溢彩中可以对不同专业的女性艺术家体验、摄取、表现的方式进行比较研究，引发观者对这一群体共性与个性的深入思考。三、展览尝试进行一场中西艺术对话，以不同文化背景观看中西艺术之道。

展览受到加拿大社会各界及媒体广泛关注，凤凰卫视、香港《明报》、《CHINADAILY》等几十家中外媒体报道了展览的盛况。展览成为温哥华市区一道亮丽的风景线，“花样年华——中加女性艺术家作品联展”将在温哥华保利艺术馆展至2018年1月31日。
 

“In the Mood for Love – An Exhibition Featuring Chinese and Canadian Female Artists” will be grandly inaugurated at Poly Culture Art Center in Vancouver on 12th December, 2017. The exhibition is jointly organized by Poly Culture North America Investment Co.,Ltd. and Beijing Gauguin Culture Media Co.,Ltd., it is sponsored by Poly Culture Art Center and co-organized by Canada Seven Hundred Honor Foundation.

The exhibition invites Ms. Chen Yi, Director of Poly Culture North America Investment Co.,Ltd. and Ms. Amelia Gao, Canadian Social Activist, Founder of Seven Hundred Honor Foundation and Director of Poly Culture Art Center to serve as its general producers, Dr. Fu Yijing, Research Associate from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts to serve as its academic chair, Ms. Dong Huiping, Associate Professor from the China Tianjin Polytechnic University and Static Images Director of CAFA Art Museum to serve as its curator. Artworks from nearly 30 renowned female artists from both China and Canada have been included in this exhibition, artists from China include Cai Jin, Chen Xi, Cui Xiuwen, DongHuiping, Gao Qian, Geng Xue, Jiang Jie, Ji Yujie, Kang Lei, Lyu Yue, Peng Wei,Shen Ling, Shao Yiyang, Teng Fei, Wang Limin, Xiao Lu, Xiao Ge, Xiao Suhong, Yu Chen, Zhang Fan, Zhou Lan, Zhang Yanzi; artists from Canada include Dorothy Knowles, Emily Carr, Frances Semple, Marianna Gartner, Rita Letendre, Carollyne Yardley.

On the special occasion of the 150th anniversary celebrating the founding of Canada, this exhibition is of great significance topromote the Sino-Canadian exchanges of cultures and arts. Exactly as Ms. ChenYi hopes, this exhibition will become a beginning and bridge, to continuously promote more exchanges and dialogues among females artists in China and Canada while contributing to the development and prosperity of the local cultural market along with the promotion of international cultural exchange; it also draws a perfect ending for a series of exhibitions in 2017 to “progress Chinese traditional culture and offer well-wishes for the celebration of Canada 150.” Ms. Amelia Gao also mentions that, as the initiator of Seven Hundred Honor Foundation, she feels that “I have the responsibility and obligation to build abridge of artistic exchanges between China and Canada. I hope Chinese would play a more important role on the stage of multiculturalism in Canada,” thus she hopes “that there is an opportunity to held such an exhibition featuring female artists with high standard and quality.” Since contemporary women in her eyes are versatile and their have colorful lives, “with their unique perspectives and expressions, they describe their independent perception ofhuman beings, society and the Nature with fine arts, they either focus on the reality or question the mind, with bold or implicit and restrained portrayal,from which their presentation of living conditions in various cultural backgrounds are revealed.” She believes “this exhibition featuring many internationally renowned female artists, provides a rare opportunity for Canadians to know about Chinese women and female artists,” this exhibition will bring about some new thinking and experience of beauty for those are living in Canadian multiculturalism; she also calls for more and more contemporary newwomen will participate in cultural and artistic activities, in social public activities, to express their opinions bravely while contributing their talent and energy, thus become a fresh and indispensable source of strength in the social development.

Curator Dong Huiping points out that, this exhibition is the first time that artworks by Chinese and Canadian renowned female artists have debuted on the same stage, which could be taken as the extension on the basis of the former exhibition “In the Mood for Love” in Beijing. There are several peculiarities in this exhibition: first of all, we can detect the sequences of developments in contemporary Chinese female artsince China’s reform and opening-up from the artworks included in this exhibition. From the shot by the artist Xiao Lu who was born in 1960s fired on her work Dialogue at the “Chinese Modern Art Exhibition” in 1989, to The Poetry of Michelangelo by Geng Xue, who was born in the 1980s, it spansthirty years, the medium of art continues to extend and evolve; there are artists who have been active in the world of Chinese painting since 1990s such as Shen Ling, Jiang Jie, Cai Jin, Yu Chen, Cui Xiuwen, Teng Fei, as well as artists who have presented their unique style in recent years such as Gao Qian,Peng Wei, Zhang Yanzi, Kang Lei, Lyu Yue, Zhang Fan and Geng Xue, Chinese female artists have witnessed the development of this epoch and responded withspecial expressions. Secondly, a general appearance is not hard to find as their perspective of female art is closely related to their feelings and lives. No matter what media they use, what themes they work on, instead of saying that they are doing a single piece of work, it would be better to describe as poemsfrom their hearts in various media. Thirdly, from the exhibition we can also see that the Chinese and Canadian female artists are creating a distinctive artstyle with local cultural characteristics, which had been profoundly influenced by the western modern and postmodern art in the 20th century, in the"Earth Village" described by the famous original media theorist Marshall McLuhan.
 

Dr. Fu Yijing, Academic Chair of this exhibitionaffirms the three key values of this exhibition: it is ingenuous as it centers around the actual presentation of artistic status and growth experienced byfemale artists from both China and Canada. It shows a kind of experience perception and thinking creations different from male artists, which instead highlighting the independent aesthetic character and spiritual orientation of contemporary women. She points out that female artists seek a personal breakthrough in the main theme of the times, and they tend to give a free presentation which is unofficial, depoliticized, non-ideologically but withradical feminist features, they create their own art space and discourse system. Even so, the discourse power of women in today’s society is still weak,they are different from male artists' dedication to major and grandiose themes on creations of paintings and there is a more self-emotional experience and reproduction in their works, portraying a realistic situation of cultivated femalesin cities. Secondly, it involves a variety of art forms, including Chinese ink and wash painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, video art, jewelrydesign, fashion design and so on. In a multi-channel, multi-level,multi-faceted way of art extraction, the exhibition conducts comparative studies on the experiences, absorption and presentations of female artists that specialize in various disciplines, which provides an opportunity, to developin-depth thinking on the common properties and individual characters of such a group of female artists. Thirdly, it tries to conduct a dialogue between China and the East, with various cultural backgrounds to observe the principles of art in China and the West.

The exhibition will remain on view at Poly CultureArt Center through 31st January, 2018.