Wu Weishan:Telling Chinese Stories Through Sculpture

摘要

ON November 25,2020,the late French sculptor Jean Cardot’s artwork Taureau lumière[Cattle in the Sun],donated by Académie des Beaux-Arts of France to the National Art Museum of China(NAMOC),was set up and unveiled in the Sculpture Park of the latter.At the ceremony,Wu Weishan,NAMOC curator,said,“Chinese art in the 20th century is characterized by the borrowing of Western elements.The art exchanges between China and France have contributed a lot to this.Today,we are here,witnessing the unveiling of this French masterpiece.Our bilateral friendship conveyed by it will be written down in the history of Sino-French art exchanges.”For years,Wu has been dedicated to expressing the spirit of Chinese culture through sculpture for cross-border understanding and cooperation in arts.