Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University

北京大学阿瑟·姆·赛克勒考古与艺术博物馆非常高兴能够邀请到来自厄瓜多尔的尼古拉斯·埃雷拉先生作为2017年吉莉安·赛克勒女士国际艺术家展览项目的艺术家。

　　The Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University is pleased to present Nicolás Herrera, from Ecuador, as the 2017 International Artist for the Dame Jillian Sackler International Artists Exhibition Program.

　　本次展览由12幅大型画作和61幅小型绘画组成，展期共计三个月；这些作品来源于埃雷拉诗意的情怀，也受到了美丽的亚马逊丛林以及可预见的全球化可悲后果的启发。

　　The exhibition, Enchanted Nature: Deforestation and the Environment, consists of a set of 12 large paintings and 61 drawings, and will be on display for three months. The drawings and paintings emanate from Herrera’s poetic mind and are inspired by the amazing Amazon forest and the lamentable yet predictable consequences of globalization. 

　　随着发展中国家生活水平的提高，人们对于建筑、室内装修和家具的硬木需求也在增加，而这些特殊种类的硬木只能在亚马逊森林深处生长。为了获取这些原木资源，亚马逊丛林内已开辟出了多条非法交通道路。随着道路数量的增加，森林资源在日益减少。经过估算，在过去四十年中，约有超过20%的树木被砍伐，而这超过了人类在过去450年中的森林损失。

　　As the standard of living has increased in developing nations, so has the demand for specialty hardwoods for architecture, flooring and furniture. Some of these hardwoods can only be found deep in the Amazon forest. To reach these old virgin trees, a web of illegal roads has been created throughout the Amazon. As the number of roads increase, so does the number of trees being cut down. It is estimated that more than 20% of the trees have been cut in the past four decades, which is more than we lost in the previous 450 years.

　　砍伐森林会对环境有剧烈的影响，因为它削减了地球的氧气供应；还可能引起干旱和火灾，并毁灭依赖热带雨林才能保存的河流和人类聚落。森林环境养育并庇护着数千种飞鸟、走兽、鱼虫，过度砍伐则影响气候环境，毁灭生态系统。

　　Deforestation greatly affects the environment as it depletes the supply of oxygen for the world. It can also cause drought and fires, ruining rivers and communities that depend on the rainforest for daily living. A forest gives birth and protection to thousands of species of animals, birds and insects, and deforestation changes climate and kills the ecosystems that sustain life.

　　从生态学的角度来看，厄瓜多尔是世界上最多元的国家。在叶苏尼森林，厄瓜多尔亚马逊区域中二十五公顷的土地上，就有大约1100种不同类型的树木、600多种鸟类以及约170种动物，超过了整个北美洲的总和。正因如此，我们选择了一位厄瓜多尔的艺术家来创作一些描绘动植物群的作品。这些作品是用一种神秘、魔幻、神话般、富有激情的风格创作的，是色彩纷呈的。这次重要的展览将会被人们牢牢记住。作为一次成功地展示了时代、环境和迷人自然的展览，它充斥着爱、激情、诗意和魔法。

　　Ecuador, ecologically, is the most diverse country in the world. In the Yasuni forest, a small, 25-hectare plot in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, there are 1,100 species of trees, 600 species of birds and 170 species of animals, more than in all of North America. It is for this reason that an artist from this country was chosen to create works that showcase fauna and flora in a mysterious, mythological, magical, dynamic manner and in full color. This important exhibition will be remembered by those who experienced it as a triumphant representation of our times, our environment, our enchanted nature, infused with love, passion, poetry and magic.

　　尼古拉斯·埃雷拉在厄瓜多尔取得了非常多的大奖，其中包括安巴托的第一届路易斯·A·马丁内斯全国印刷奖以及基多的第一届沙龙马里亚诺·阿奎莱拉全国印刷奖。通过出售画作，他在厄瓜多尔的伊瓦拉市建立了自己的博物馆来放置并展出自己的绘画、雕塑以及其他艺术家的作品。除了在厄瓜多尔本国的展览，埃雷拉还在美国、德国、法国、西班牙、瑞士、以色列、哥伦比亚、巴拿马、智利、秘鲁和墨西哥进行过自己的艺术品展出。

　　Herrera in his native Ecuador received numerous awards, including the prestigious Luis A Martínez First National Printing Prize, Ambato and First National Printing Prize from Salón Mariano Aguilera, Quito, among others. By selling one painting at a time, he built his own museum in Ibarra to house and exhibit his paintings and sculptures and to exhibit works by other artists. Apart from numerous exhibitions within Ecuador, he has exhibited widely, including in the United States of America, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Colombia, Panama, Chile, Peru and Mexico.

　　吉莉安·赛克勒女士的国际艺术家展览项目是为了将天赋异禀的国际艺术家的作品带来北大的赛克勒博物馆展出而设立的。这个项目展出的作品必须有文化的内涵以在作品和参观者之间构建一座沟通的桥梁。这个项目的目标是通过在中国展出不同背景的艺术家的作品来给人们构建一种跨文化的理解。我们的任务是使展览有教育意义，能够振奋人心，和参观者有交互，最重要的是蕴含深思，并在人群间鼓励一种持续的和平共存关系。

　　The Dame Jillian Sackler International Artists Exhibition Program was established to bring talented international artists to the Sackler Museum at Beida. Artwork for this program must have cultural value in order to create an open dialogue between the work and the viewer. The aim of this program is to create cross-cultural understanding by showing in China works by artists from diverse backgrounds. It is our mission to have exhibitions that are informative, exciting, interactive and most of all thoughtful, encouraging peaceful co-existence and long-lasting relationships between peoples.

北京大学阿瑟·姆·赛克勒考古与艺术博物馆非常高兴能够邀请到来自厄瓜多尔的尼古拉斯·埃雷拉先生作为2017年吉莉安·赛克勒女士国际艺术家展览项目的艺术家。