王馨曼 / 综合材料 / 2025 / 雪豹:穿越时空与科学的凝视 / 50*50cm
国际生态环保艺术家、云南大学艺术学院教师王馨曼博士的纸质综合材料作品《雪豹:穿越时空与科学的凝视》入选并参加了此次国际巡展。这件尺寸为50厘米×50厘米的作品完成于2025年初,以丙烯颜料和水墨在传统手工纸上创作,体现了当代艺术实践与历史工艺的融合。这件作品源于王馨曼博士在野生动物保护领域的跨学科研究,特别是她于2020年11月与伦敦动物学会(ZSL)合作,在中国青海进行的雪豹保护野外考察。此次考察由英国动物学家特里·汤森德(Terry Townshend)、吉尼斯世界纪录保持者、探险家金飞豹(Jing Fei Bao)和地质学家费宣(Fei Xuan)共同开展,为王博士提供了大量的第一手观察、摄影记录和视频记录,奠定了她“雪豹”系列的基础。作品的核心主题是雪豹面部的近距离特写,细致入微地刻画了这只动物锐利的目光——一个充满深刻警惕和内省的时刻。这种与观者的直接互动,促使人们反思人类与自然世界之间脆弱的共存关系。背景上刻有量子力学公式,与古老的东巴文字并置。东巴文字是一种古老的象形文字,至今仍在王馨曼博士的家乡——中国云南使用。科学符号与精神象征的相互作用,构建了一场经验与神秘、现代与古代、人类智慧与自然永恒智慧之间的视觉对话。作品中对比鲜明的元素——当代物理学、古代文献以及雪豹原始而未驯服的存在——引发人们对过去一千年来人类与环境之间不断演变的关系的思考。科技进步是否促进了人类与自然世界更加和谐的共存,还是加剧了雪豹等濒危物种面临的威胁?通过嵌入这些视觉和概念上的张力,王博士的作品超越了单纯的表述;它成为一种紧迫的行动号召,促使观众参与到野生动物保护和日益加剧的全球气候变化危机中。通过雪豹系列,王博士将艺术、人类学和环境保护融合在一起,呼吁观众不仅要欣赏这种难以捉摸的物种的美丽,还要思考它们在塑造地球生态未来方面所扮演的角色。
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本次展览聚焦中国当代艺术语境中“纸”的媒介价值与文化表达,遴选80余件具有代表性的纸本艺术作品,涵盖水墨、拓印、剪纸、纸雕、纸装置、纸浆与复合媒材等形式,内容丰富,主题多样,既有承续传统文脉的精微水墨与民间剪纸,也有以纸为物质语言进行观念转译、身体书写与空间装置的当代实验,在尺寸、结构与媒材上展开跨媒介组合。展览旨在以纸为核心材料,探讨自然生态、时间记忆、感官经验等当代艺术主题,系统展示在全球艺术语境下中国当代纸艺的艺术形式与文化深度。
“纸语千年 艺韵华章” 中国纸本艺术国际巡展在彰显中华文明中“纸”作为文化载体历史厚度的同时,也突出了当代艺术视野中“纸”的延展性与跨文化沟通力。在新的时代背景下,本次巡展立足于中华文化的深厚积淀,以更加开放、多元、国际化的姿态,推动中国纸媒艺术出海,聚焦纸的视觉语言与文化意象,推动文化理解与文明互鉴,助力中国当代艺术在全球艺术体系中主动发声,在国际认知结构中获得更具主体性的表达。
作为巡展的首站展出城市,索非亚在欧洲纸艺文化中的特殊地位也为本次展览赋予更多深层意义。近年来,随着城市文化机制的不断开放与多元艺术形态的兴起,索非亚逐渐成为欧洲纸艺创作与展示的重要节点城市。展览首站在此落地,不仅呼应了城市空间对纸媒文化的承载力,也为推动中国纸本艺术在国际上的系统传播提供了良好平台。
Sophia Xinman Wang participated in the 2025 National Art Fund International Tour
On June 15th, local time, the first exhibition of "Paper Language for Thousands of Years, Artistic Rhythm and Splendor - International Tour of Contemporary Chinese Paper Art" was grandly opened at the Chinese Cultural Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The exhibition was co-organized by the National Art Fund and China Cultural Media Group, and co-organized by China Media Creative Exhibition (Beijing) Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Yishijian Cultural Technology Co., Ltd., and Wuhu Art Museum, and was strongly supported by the Chinese Embassy in Bulgaria and the Chinese Cultural Center in Sofia. This exhibition is one of the 2025 communication, exchange, and promotion funding projects of the National Art Fund, and it is also an important practice of Chinese paper media art cluster "going out" in recent years. At the opening ceremony, Guan Xin, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Bulgaria, Liu Bei, Acting Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Sofia, Jing Xiaomeng, representative of the organizer China Media Creative Exhibition Company, Xiao Huang, exhibition curator, and Li Hongbo, representative of artists, and other guests delivered speeches.
Dr. Sophia Xinman Wang, an international eco-environmental artist and teacher at the School of Art of Yunnan University, has selected and participated in this international tour for her paper-based mixed media work "Snow Leopard: Across Time and Space and the Gaze of Science". This 50 cm x 50 cm work, completed in early 2025, is created with acrylic paint and ink on traditional handmade paper, reflecting the integration of contemporary art practice and historical craftsmanship. This work stems from Dr. Sophia Xinman Wang's interdisciplinary research in the field of wildlife conservation, especially her field survey on snow leopard conservation in Qinghai, China, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in November 2020. The survey was jointly conducted by British zoologist Terry Townshend, Guinness World Record holder and explorer Jing Fei Bao, and geologist Fei Xuan, providing Dr. Wang with many first-hand observations, photographic records, and video records, laying the foundation for her "Snow Leopard" series. The core theme of the work is a close-up of the snow leopard's face, which meticulously depicts the animal's sharp gaze - a moment full of deep vigilance and introspection. This direct interaction with the viewer prompts reflection on the fragile coexistence between humans and the natural world. Quantum mechanics formulas are inscribed on the background, juxtaposed with ancient Dongba script, an ancient pictographic script still used in Dr. Wang's hometown of Yunnan, China. The interplay of scientific symbols and spiritual symbols constructs a visual dialogue between experience and mystery, modern and ancient, human wisdom, and the eternal wisdom of nature. The contrasting elements in the work - contemporary physics, ancient texts, and the raw and untamed existence of the snow leopard - prompt reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and the environment over the past thousand years. Has technological advancement promoted a more harmonious coexistence between humans and the natural world, or has it exacerbated the threats faced by endangered species such as the snow leopard? By embedding these visual and conceptual tensions, Dr. Wang's work goes beyond mere statement; it becomes an urgent call to action, prompting viewers to participate in wildlife conservation and the growing global climate change crisis. Through the Snow Leopard Series, Dr. Wang brings together art, anthropology, and environmental protection, calling on viewers to not only appreciate the beauty of this elusive species, but also to consider the role they play in shaping the future of the planet's ecology.
This exhibition focuses on the media value and cultural expression of "paper" in the context of contemporary Chinese art. It selects more than 80 representative paper-based art works, covering ink, rubbing, paper cutting, paper sculpture, paper installation, pulp and composite media. The content is rich, and the theme is diverse. There are both fine ink and folk paper cutting that inherit the traditional context, and contemporary experiments that use paper as a material language to translate concepts, body writing and space installations, and cross-media combinations in size, structure, and media. The exhibition aims to explore contemporary art themes such as natural ecology, time memory, and sensory experience with paper as the core material, and systematically display the artistic form and cultural depth of contemporary Chinese paper art in the context of global art.
"Paper Language for Thousands of Years, Artistic Rhythm and Splendor" China Paper Art International Touring Exhibition not only highlights the historical thickness of "paper" as a cultural carrier in Chinese civilization, but also highlights the ductility and cross-cultural communication power of "paper" in the vision of contemporary art. In the new era, this tour is based on the profound accumulation of Chinese culture. With a more open, diverse, and international attitude, it promotes the export of Chinese paper media art, focuses on the visual language and cultural imagery of paper, promotes cultural understanding and mutual learning of civilizations, and helps Chinese contemporary art to actively speak out in the global art system and obtain more subjective expression in the international cognitive structure.
As the first stop of the tour, Sofia's special status in European paper art culture also gives this exhibition more profound meaning. In recent years, with the continuous opening of urban cultural mechanisms and the rise of diverse art forms, Sofia has gradually become an important node city for European paper art creation and display. The first stop of the exhibition landed here, which not only echoes the carrying capacity of urban space for paper media culture, but also provides a good platform for promoting the systematic dissemination of Chinese paper art internationally.
