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Co-sponsored by the Meridian International Center and China International Exhibition Agency, "Ancient Threads, Newly Woven: Recent Art from China's Silk Road" was launched in Washington D.C. in the United States February 18. Yang Jiechi, Chinese ambassador to the United States and his wife attended the opening ceremony to address the audience. The ambassador expressed his gratitude to both sponsors for their deliberate planning and joint efforts over more than two years. A total 86 art works from western provinces like Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang, which once linked the East and the West for centuries -- are presented at the exhibition.
Immense, remote and utterly different from the rest of China, the far west has, in recent years, produced a large number of new artists whose work has rarely been seen outside China. The exhibition features works collected on several trips to China's western regions by a group of Chinese and American curators and experts known as the "Silk Road Team."
The new artists all come from famous cities along the Silk Road like Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China's ancient capital where the Silk Road began; Lanzhou; Dunhuang, famous for its grottoes adorned with Buddhist frescoes and sculptures; Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang; and Kashgar, in the heart of Central Asia where China borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kazakhstan. These cities, which were once rest stops along the Silk Road, are today rapidly growing and changing as China's western regions develop.
The exhibition will last for three months and then tour other cities in the United States for nearly two years, which will be another achievement in the cultural communications process between China and America.


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