此展緣于王育林與保羅?尼爾森二位藝術家之間的友誼。這種友誼猶如天命安排，二位藝術家執教于南埃爾泊塔省的同一所學校——麥迪森學院。保羅?尼爾森來自加拿大埃爾泊塔省農場社區，而王育林來自世界的另一邊——中國南京。二人在加拿大和中國有幾次聯展，在最近中國的一次聯展他們遇上了中國藝術家崔見、朱明和李曉恒。藝術上的共同興趣，技巧和審美情調使他們的作品無疑會帶給觀者一種震撼，這也正如他們五人所具有的非凡氣質一樣。

　　連接‘融’展五位藝術家的基本點是，他們都采用運動中的勢而自由潑毫及由此所產生的視覺與畫面材料本身肌理的有機結合。對于崔見、朱明、李曉恒和王育林而言，這種繪畫方法源自古老、優雅的中國傳統繪畫及書法與西方現代繪畫的綜合。對保羅而言這樣的藝術更多是基于他個人對西方表現抽象的理解與探索。展出的五位藝術家的作品可由此形象地描述為有趣的三點三角關系，即圖形表達、抽象和象征。他們的作品直接、有力地展示了他們對此三點的內在感知和創作經歷。

　　總而言之，五位藝術家非常清晰地通過他們的作品和藝術實踐表達了各自的內在世界。作品在美學上或抽象、或寓意、或象征，他們所揭示的是藝術家對現實世界、存在體和經歷的真實感觀和精神層面寫照?！凇鼓撤N意義上說是為我們這個時代，一個前所未有的加拿大文化與中國文化連接的時代，正如‘融’所展示的作品，交流與共享人類的創作靈感和創作敏感，從而歡呼我們豐富的獨特文化傳統。

　　策展人： 喬安娜?瑪麗安 （加拿大埃爾博塔省. 愛舍帕那達美術館藝術總監）
　　武東霞（中國）

[專稿] 融——中國·加拿大繪畫作品巡回展

　　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)