2025年4⽉4日下午三点，在位于纽约布鲁克林肯特街127号，历史悠久的Churchof the Ascension里办了由Effetto Arte基金会组织的“国际奖—纽约新大师”颁奖典礼。此次活动聚集了来自20多个国家的60多位艺术家、评论家和收藏家，庆祝当代视觉艺术的卓越和创新。
图片由Effetto Arte基金会提供
图片由Effetto Arte基金会提供
图片由Effetto Arte基金会提供
今年的获奖者包括王馨曼博士，她是一位国际生态艺术家和艺术教育家，她因探索艺术、自然和文化记忆之间关系的跨学科作品而获得认可。王馨曼是今年唯一一位获得该奖项的中国艺术家。
此次王馨曼的参展代表性作品《生命与共存-治愈从爱开始》,《生命与共存系列-雪豹：穿越时空与科学的凝视》，该创作于2025年初，凝视-深刻警惕和内省的时刻。这种与观众的直接互动形成反思人类与自然世界之间的脆弱共存。背景上刻有量子力学公式，与东巴文的并存，东巴文是一种古老的象形文字，仍在中国的云南地区流传和使用。科学符号和精神象征主义之间的这种相互作用构建了经验与神秘，现代性和古代性，人类的智力和自然的持久智慧之间的视觉对话。作品中的对比元素（量子力学公示，古老的文本，以及原始的，无污染的雪地势力的存在-对人类的现象越来越多地跨越人类的关系。科学技术方面的进步是否促进了与自然世界的更和谐共存，还是加剧了像雪豹这样的濒危物种所面临的威胁？通过嵌入这些视觉和概念紧张局势，王馨曼博士的工作超越了代表性。这成为一个紧迫的行动呼吁，迫使观众参与野生动植物保护问题和全球危机的不断升级 气候变化。通过生命与共存系列作品，王博士合并艺术，人类学和环境宣传，敦促观众不仅欣赏这种难以捉摸的物种的美丽，而且还考虑了它们在塑造地球生态未来的作用。王博士不仅是生态艺术家，同时也担任UNESCO-IMAJ国际项目“自然与艺术-保护生物多样性全球艺术大赛”的执行总监，并领导了多项国际艺术活动，旨在通过创造性表达提高人们对环境问题和保护生物多样性的思考。
《生命与共存系列-雪豹：穿越时空与科学的凝视》综合材料50*50CM2025
包括王馨曼博士的作品在内的获奖作品也在4⽉4⽇⾄7日的”纽约2025 ARTEXPO“上展出，Effetto Arte基金会为数千名参观者提供了接触来自世界各地的当代视觉艺术的机会。
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Sophia Xinman Wang Wins the"New Great
Masters inNew York"InternationalArt Award
On April 4, 2025, at 3:00PM, the “InternationalPrize – TheNew GreatMastersinNew York”,
organizedby theEffetto ArteFoundation, was held at the historic Churchofthe Ascensionat
127Kent StreetinBrooklyn,New York. The eventbrought togethermore than 60 artists, critics,and collectors from over 20 countries to celebrate excellenceandinnovationincontemporary visualart.
Among this year's honorees wasDr. Sophia Xinman Wang, aninternationallyrecognized eco-artist and art educator, celebrated for herinterdisciplinary workexploringtheconnections
between art,nature, and culturalmemory.Dr. Wang was the onlyChinese artisttoreceivethisprestigious award.
Her featured work, titled “Life and Coexistence Series -Healingbeginnings withlove”,and
"Life and Coexistence Series – SnowLeopard: A Gaze Through Time, Space,andScience",
was createdin early 2025. The snowleopard’s gaze capturesamomentofdeep vigilanceandintrospection,inviting direct engagement and compelling viewers to reflecton thefragile
balancebetween humanity and the natural world.Behind theimage, quantumphysicsformulasareinscribed alongsideDongba script— an ancientpictograph writing system stillusedinDr. Wang’shome region of Yunnan,China.
This thoughtfulinterplaybetween scientific notation and spiritual symbolism createsalayeredvisual dialogue—betweenmodernity and antiquity,intellect andinstinct, empiricalinquiry andcultural heritage.Elements such as fleeting scientific symbols, timelessindigenous texts,and pristine snow-cappedlandscapes converge topose a central question:Do scientificadvancespromote harmony with nature, or do theydeepen thethreatsfacedbyendangeredspecieslikethe snowleopard?
By embedding these visual and conceptual tensions,Dr. Wang’s work transcends
representation.Itbecomes acall to action—promptingurgent reflection onwildlife
conservation and climate change. Through her *SnowLeopard* series,sheblendsart,
anthropology, and environmental advocacy, urging audiences toappreciatenotonly thebeautyof this elusive species,but also their own roleinshapingthefutureofourplanet.Dr.Wangis
not only an ecological artist,but also servesas theExecutiveDirectorof theUNESCO-IMAJ
internationalproject"Nature and Art-Conservation ofBiodiversity Global Art Competition" and
hasled anumber ofinternational art activities aimed atimprovingpeople'sreflectiononenvironmentalissues and the conservation of biodiversity through creativeexpression.
The award-winning works,includingDr. Wang’s, were also exhibited at ARTEXPONew York2025, held from April 4 to 7. Organizedby theEffetto ArteFoundation, theexhibitionofferedthousands of visitors the opportunity to experience contemporary art fromacross theglobe.
