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Jin Yu Xiang and the Four Seas Return to the Heart" porcelain vase.
A French audience visits the exhibition.
French visitors experience the art of drawing blanks. (The pictures in this article are provided by the organizer).
Ceramics is a treasure of Chinese civilization, and it is also a window for the world to understand China and a business card for China to go global.
On January 30, local time, the "Silk Road Porcelain Tour" China Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Special Exhibition sponsored by the Jiangxi Provincial People's Information Office, Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Jingdezhen People's **, and the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, France, opened at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, France. As one of the key opening activities of the Sino-French Year of Culture and Tourism, the special exhibition focuses on the five themes of "Silk Road Voyage", "New Realm of Porcelain Language", "Chinese Color", "Porcelain on the World" and "Concord Wanbang", exhibiting 48 pieces (sets) of ceramic art masterpieces, telling Chinese stories with ceramic art and building a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Chinese and foreign artists participated in the exhibition.
On the banks of the Seine, at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, a melodious song "Blue and White Porcelain" opened the curtain of the "Silk Road Porcelain Tour" special exhibition of ceramic culture in Jingdezhen, China. This piece of music, performed by Chinese and French artists and played by an ensemble of folk music and Western music, made the audience feel as if they were in the classical Chinese artistic conception, and the sense of beauty and elegance gradually spread.
Hugo, a French leader who participated in the performance, said that in the special year of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China, it is a very rare and proud thing for him to be able to get close to Chinese culture and participate in the dissemination of Chinese culture.
On that day, there was a crowd of people inside and outside the exhibition hall, and the audience lined up in the exhibition preface hall. A carmine carmine flower painting gold pastel pattern celestial ball bottle named "Jin Yu Xiang and the Heart of the Four Seas" attracted many audiences to stop and admire. This porcelain vase is painted with four iconic motifs of the Great Wall, the Arc de Triomphe, the panda and the Gallic rooster, which resonated with Chinese and French audiences. Many viewers said that this work reflects the long-standing and deep friendship between the Chinese and French peoples.
The works on display are not only from Chinese artists, but also from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece and other countries. French artist Emma's ceramic "Saint Daughter" integrates her imagination of Eastern and Western feminine beauty; Spanish artist Oulan's wood-fired porcelain cup "The Faces of All Beings" was inspired by the murals of the Dunhuang grottoes after studying Zhang Daqian's paintings; British artist Peter Beard's ceramic "Dawn" uses a combination of matte glaze, semi-matte glaze and colored clay to create a brilliant and colorful textured surface ......These works were created in Jingdezhen.
Twenty years ago, the exhibition "Burning Splendor - Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Masterpieces from the 12th to the 18th Centuries" was exhibited at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, and the exquisite ceramic treasures of the past dynasties were poured into the French audience; The "Silk Road Porcelain Tour" China Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Special Exhibition focuses on the historical culture and contemporary innovation and development of Chinese ceramics. "This exhibition is a tribute to tradition and a vision for the future, most of the exhibits are modern works, showing the new look of Jingdezhen ceramics in terms of technical application and artistic expression. Yue Jun, director of Jingdezhen Art Museum, introduced.
Anne-Marie Raffarin, the wife of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former French Prime Minister, said after visiting the exhibition that the exhibition was very exciting, allowing everyone to see the contemporary achievements of Jingdezhen ceramics in China, which complemented the exhibition in 2004.
Chen Li, Minister of the Chinese Embassy in France, said that Jingdezhen, as China's "porcelain capital", has produced countless ceramic artworks with exquisite shapes and superb craftsmanship for thousands of years. Chinese porcelain and French porcelain have many similarities and differences, just like the Chinese and French peoples, although they are different in terms of culture and other aspects, they have been able to understand and appreciate each other for the past 60 years. The "Silk Road Porcelain Tour" China Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Exhibition is a bridge between China and France, hoping that the audience can feel the eternal beauty of porcelain and the extraordinary charm of art beyond national borders.
Cultural exchange continues to write a new chapter.
At the exhibition site, artists and potters from Jingdezhen brought traditional porcelain-making blanks and painting skills to showcase. Many French audiences are admiring the porcelain-making process up close for the first time, sometimes holding their breath and condensing, marveling, enjoying the subtlety of the millennium technique, and sometimes testing the drawing technique under the guidance of the artist.
The exhibition set up activities such as the "Blue and White Secret Land" interactive game and 360° ceramic real-life experience, creating an immersive experience space with digital technology and narrowing the distance between the French audience and ceramic culture.
On the afternoon of the opening day of the exhibition, a lecture on the theme of "The History and Contemporaneity of Ceramic Art" was held in the multi-functional small theater of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, which was attended by more than 120 ceramic art lovers from Paris. The keynote speaker, Yue Jun, talked about the history and innovation of Chinese ceramic culture from three aspects: the concept of pottery and porcelain, the historical development of Chinese ceramics and the contemporary expression of ceramic art.
Yannick Linz, director of the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in France, said after attending the event that 2024 is the theme year of Chinese culture at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Art, and the museum will hold an exhibition on Chinese monochrome glazed porcelain from June to September. She hopes to further strengthen the cooperation between France and Chinese and the dialogue on art, so as to add luster to the Year of French and Chinese tourism.
China and Europe have had many commercial, trade and people-to-people exchanges throughout their history. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of ceramic products were sold to Europe through the Silk Road, which were widely popular and had a profound impact on the ceramic art of Europe. "From the point of view of composition, ceramics are the same all over the world, but people in different countries and regions have given it different cultural connotations, which brings a variety of expressions. They are all common treasures of humanity. Yue Jun said.
Nowadays, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries are more frequent. In the field of ceramic art, international competitions and exhibitions are held every year. Yue Jun told reporters: "In the face of the future development of ceramic art, Chinese and foreign artists continue to explore the contemporaneity of ceramics in exchanges and interactions, in order to seek more possibilities for ceramic art creation." ”
Jingdezhen is a city born of porcelain, prosperous with porcelain, and famous for porcelain, where there is an endless "millennium kiln fire". Ceramics also bear witness to the deep friendship between China and France. As early as the beginning of the 14th century, Jingdezhen began to produce porcelain for export according to market demand. In these "ordered Chinese porcelain", French Rococo art and Chinese pastel porcelain collided with brilliant sparks. In 2010, Jingdezhen and Limoges, France became sister cities, and the two "porcelain capitals" of China and France joined hands across time and space. Nowadays, thousands of foreign artists are creating, creating and starting businesses in Jingdezhen, forming a unique phenomenon of "foreign scenery drifting", among which there are many French ceramists who pursue their dreams and realize their dreams here. The cultural and artistic exchanges between China and France with porcelain as a medium are still writing new chapters. (Reporter Lai Rui).
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