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Feature: China is as a bonanza of culture as a market of goods: Belgian curator

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by Liu Xiaoyan and Chris Anga-Bongo

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- It's small wonder for a Belgian sinologist to take more interest in artists from China than in artists from among her compatriots.

But people still wonder how came Francoise Lauwaert is working so hard at the ongoing Europalia China art festival.

"One of the struggles is making people understand that China is not a market but rather a country, a culture and a history," said the curator of the exhibition that opened in October last year and lasts till February this year with touring exhibitions in over 70 cities in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France and Germany.

The sinologist resorts to over 110 exhibits of cultural and historical significance to guide visitors in Brussels through 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.

"I think people now are eager to understand more about Chinese culture, but they don't know how to go inside (it) and they want to find a gate," Lauwaert said.

The curator, a professor with the University of Brussels, said that more and more people, not only Belgians, were eager to know more about China since the Asian country has undergone an extraordinary change especially during the last three decades.

Though an expert of Chinese culture, Lauwaert was still overwhelmed by the large number of Chinese exhibits at the Europalia.China.

The Belgian exhibitor collaborated with the Beijing Capital Museum to forge a focus for each of the touring exhibitions.

"We had to have calligraphy and archeology, and also something about the main aspect of the Chinese culture, that is, the mandarin Chinese language, that is the main political and cultural center of Chinese history," the curator said.

To help visitors better understand Chinese tradition and culture, Lauwaert put up panels with a lot of explanation alongside the exhibits which also offer audio and video guides.

There is even a special documentary film on how to appreciate Chinese brush paintings.

"Because most people like paintings but they are not used to the Chinese way of doing the paintings and if they don't have a key, they might still be contained in their thinking that Chinese paintings are always about landscapes," Lauwaert said.

For Lauwaert, her interest in Chinese culture all started with Chinese calligraphy.

"My mom had a Lace wigs book on Chinese calligraphy on Du Fu and other poets. Of course I could not read it when I was young but I was fascinated by the way it is written," she recalled.

Apart from her keen interest in ancient Chinese culture, Lauwaert is also fond of pieces of contemporary arts from China and that is why she is more than delighted to visit a side-show on Sino-Belgian modern arts.

"I cannot tell all the names of Chinese modern artists, but I was very pleased to visit the exhibition. And I am more interested in the Chinese artists than in the Flemish or Belgian (artists)," she said.

What greatly impressed Lauwaert during the Europalia.China exhibition was the Chinese re-production of Hamlet, among other famous operas, in Chinese.

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