此展缘于王育林与保罗•尼尔森二位艺术家之间的友谊。这种友谊犹如天命安排，二位艺术家执教于南埃尔泊塔省的同一所学校——麦迪森学院。保罗•尼尔森来自加拿大埃尔泊塔省农场社区，而王育林来自世界的另一边——中国南京。二人在加拿大和中国有几次联展，在最近中国的一次联展他们遇上了中国艺术家崔见、朱明和李晓恒。艺术上的共同兴趣，技巧和审美情调使他们的作品无疑会带给观者一种震撼，这也正如他们五人所具有的非凡气质一样。

　　连接‘融’展五位艺术家的基本点是，他们都采用运动中的势而自由泼毫及由此所产生的视觉与画面材料本身肌理的有机结合。对于崔见、朱明、李晓恒和王育林而言，这种绘画方法源自古老、优雅的中国传统绘画及书法与西方现代绘画的综合。对保罗而言这样的艺术更多是基于他个人对西方表现抽象的理解与探索。展出的五位艺术家的作品可由此形象地描述为有趣的三点三角关系，即图形表达、抽象和象征。他们的作品直接、有力地展示了他们对此三点的内在感知和创作经历。

　　总而言之，五位艺术家非常清晰地通过他们的作品和艺术实践表达了各自的内在世界。作品在美学上或抽象、或寓意、或象征，他们所揭示的是艺术家对现实世界、存在体和经历的真实感观和精神层面写照。‘融’展某种意义上说是为我们这个时代，一个前所未有的加拿大文化与中国文化连接的时代，正如‘融’所展示的作品，交流与共享人类的创作灵感和创作敏感，从而欢呼我们丰富的独特文化传统。

　　策展人： 乔安娜•玛丽安 （加拿大埃尔博塔省. 爱舍帕那达美术馆艺术总监）
　　武东霞（中国）

[专稿] 融——中国·加拿大绘画作品巡回展

　　FUSION

　　This exhibition came about as a result of the artistic friendship of Poul Nielsen and Yunlin Wang, a friendship created through the vagaries of fate, Which brought together an artist form a ranching community in Alberta,Canada and an artist from the other side of the world,Nanjing,China,to teach together at Medicine Hat College in southern Alberta.Yunlin and Poul have exhibited together on several occasions, both in Canada and in China;it was through the latter exhibitions that they encountered well-known Chinese artists Jian Cui,Ming Zhu and Xiaoheng Li.The sharing of interests,techniques and aesthetic approaches between the five artists will no doubt strike the viewer of this exhibition as strongly as it did the artists themselves.

　　At the basis of the connection between the five Fusion artists is the kinetic energy of a freely made gestural mark ,and the interaction of that mark with the physical nature of the ground,whether it be canvas or rice paper.For Jian Cui,Ming Zhu,Xiaoheng Li and Yunlin Wang,this mark-making practice originates in the intersection of the ancient and sophisticated brush painting and calligraphy tradition of China with those of western painting.For Poul Nielsen the gestural mark is based more comprehensively in a personal exploration of western expressive abstraction.The works in the exhibition can thus be seen as describing three-point triangle between pictorial representation,abstraction and symbol.The gestural mark of these artists convey with strength and directness an internalized sensation of physical being and physical experience,towards all three ends.

　　In the end,this very sense of an inner world expressed through the kinetic immediacy of the gestural mark is vividly apparent in the work of all five of the artists in Fusion,whether their aesthetic approach encompasses abstraction,representation or the symbolic.The gesture conveys the actual sensation and spiritual energy of our physical world;of being and experience.Fusion thus is an exhibition very much for and of our time,a time of unprecedented cultural interconnections between China an d Canada,a mingling which,like the works in this exhibition,recognizes shared ideas and sensations about our being in the world ,derived form and celebrating our richly unique heritages.

　　Curator :
　　Joanne Marion ( Curator of Art ，Esplanade Art Gallery Medicine Hat Alberta ，Canada)
　　Dongxia Wu (China)