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My name is Nathalie Bondil, I’m French and Canadian. I live in Montreal. I'm the director and chief curator of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

我是娜塔莉·邦迪尔(Nathalie Bondil)，是法国人也是加拿大人。我住在蒙特利尔，现任蒙特利尔美术馆馆长及负责人。

▲加拿大蒙特利尔美术馆

so I am the director of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Montreal Museum Fine Arts is the most ancient art museum in Canada. It has been created in 1860, and now this is the most attended museum, art museum in Canada. We have 42,000 works.What is interesting is that it is an encyclopedic museum. So we have a fine arts, international arts from all masters, like impressionist like Monet, Renoir, Degas , but also, of course, Canadian arts. And we have a great collection of decorative arts and design, fabulous one, and of course we have contemporary arts, and a very nice collection of world cultures including Chinese art, of course. 

我是蒙特利尔美术馆馆长，我们的美术馆是加拿大最古老的艺术博物馆。蒙特利尔美术馆创建于1860年，现在是加拿大参观人数最多的博物馆，藏有42,000件作品。 蒙特利尔美术馆是一个百科全书式的博物馆，收藏包括各种大师的绘画作品，国际艺术品，如莫奈、雷诺阿、德加等著名印象派画家的作品，同时也有加拿大艺术家的作品。我们收藏了大量精美的装饰艺术品和设计作品，包括当代艺术品，以及来自世界各地的文化艺术珍品，当然其中也包括中国艺术品。

▲加拿大蒙特利尔美术馆展厅内部

The museum has been built through a one century and fifty years. So now it is a complex with five buildings. And it's a rather large complex. With these five buildings, we expanded very fast. We opened two new buildings within five years, including a building with a professional concert hall with music, and this is rather unusual. We will have a new cinema hall next in few months. And the museum is the eighteenth most important museum, largest museum in North American. 

美术馆自建立起来已有150年历史，如今由五座建筑物组成，是规模相较大的建筑群。在五座建筑物的基础上，我们又进行了迅速扩建。 五年内两座新楼对外开放，其中有一间专业音乐厅的大楼。这非常有特点。我们还将在几个月内建成一个新的电影院。 这座美术馆是北美排名第十八位的最大、最重要的博物馆之一。 

▲加拿大蒙特利尔美术馆音乐厅

In fact, our museum is a private, even it's founded and granted by the provincial state. We received Michal Horns’s collection, thanks to donors, private donors and this is why we have such a diversity of collections. Because each donor had his own passion, so this is why we have a great collection of old masters, or we have a fabulous collection of design. And it’s all because of the individuals’ passions; the museum right now has no boundaries. It is extremely open minded.And I must say that we can have all kind of exhibitions including old cultures, fashion, cinema, and we do like very xxxx shows. This is one of our great talents I would say. 

虽然我们的美术馆由州政府创立和授权，但它却是一个私人美术馆。我们获得了米歇尔.霍恩斯坦(Michal Hornstein’s)捐赠的艺术品。在此感谢这些捐助者及私人捐助者，因为他们，美术馆才得以向大家展示各种各样的艺术品。正因为每位捐赠者都怀有自己对艺术独特的激情，我们才拥有了古老大师们的杰作以及精美绝伦的设计藏品。 正因为他们各自不同的艺术激情，使得这座美术馆收藏的藏品没有界限，非常开放。正因如此，美术馆可以举办各种类型的展览，包括古老文化，时尚，电影等，我们也非常喜欢表演项目。这也是我们非常擅长做的。 

Well, of course, it's really difficult to choose only three pieces. I would say for me, following my taste, we have a fabulous work by  Honoré Daumier, you know the romantic French painter. 

让我挑三件最具代表性的作品出来有些困难。 这样说吧，按照我的品味，我想提一下奥诺雷·杜米埃(Honoré Daumier)的杰作， 也就是那位法国浪漫主义画家。

四件镇馆之宝

 镇馆之宝01：《逃离的女子》

▲奥诺雷·杜米埃，《逃离的女子》，现收藏于蒙特利尔博物馆

One of the biggest painting he made it's two fabulous women escaping from two satyrs, and this painting has been criticized a lot, because it has been created with a lot of fierce， And now it is considered as a masterpiece from Honoré Daumier. 

这是他最大的杰作之一，画上，两个曼妙的女子正极力逃脱两个好色之徒的追赶，因作品创造时被加入很多激烈的情绪，这幅画在当时饱受批评，但现在被认为是奥诺雷·杜米埃(Honoré Daumier)的杰作。

镇馆之宝02：《秋天：塞纳河边》

▲西斯莱(Alfred Sisley)，《秋天：塞纳河边》“Autumn: Banks of the Seine near Bougival” ，现收藏于蒙特利尔博物馆

We have a wonderful painting from the Sisley for example, you know the impressionist, but this one is the, we do have several works by Sisley, but this one has been on display at the very first exhibition of the impressionists in 1874. So it’s a treasury. 

我们有一幅很不错的绘画作品，来自印象派画家西斯莱(Sisley)，这幅画早在1874年第一次印象派展览中就展出过了。可以说是收藏瑰宝。 

I would say that we have a great work, very rare from the Dogon, from the Mali in Africa. It’s a sculpture from Mali. 我们也藏有一件很不错的作品，非常罕见的是来自西非马里的多贡,是来自马里的雕塑。

镇馆之宝03：《律师雨果·西蒙斯的肖像》

▲奥托·迪克斯(Otto Dix) ，《律师雨果·西蒙斯的肖像》“Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons”

Yes I have to choose another one, so yes yes, we have a great painting by Otto Dix. Otto Dix is a very very important German painter. 

我必须再选一个才行，我们还有奥托·迪克斯(Otto Dix)的伟大绘画作品。奥托· 迪克斯(Otto Dix)是德国一位非常非常重要的画家。 

It is a portrait of a lawyer Hugo Simons. And this painting has an incredible story, because in fact, it represents a Jew, escaping  Hugo Simons, and in fact, this painting escaped from the Nazis to Canada. And it's a great story of friendship between the painter, the German painter and the donor, the lawyer, who and they remain friends even after the Second World War.

这是一幅律师雨果·西蒙斯(Hugo Simons)的肖像。 肖像背后是一个令人难以置信的故事。事实上，它反映了正在逃难的犹太人—雨果·西蒙斯，这幅画从纳粹人手中逃脱，最后辗转来到了加拿大。 这幅画的背后，是这位德国画家与他的捐助者律师之间的伟大友谊故事， 他们一直保持着友谊，即使二战后依旧如此。 

And this painting has been given to our museum because the family of Hugo Simons was so grateful towards Montreal, because Montreal open its arms towards those immigrants coming from, escaping from this Second World War, and we have it as a jewel in our collection. 

后来这幅画被赠与了我们博物馆，蒙特利尔向二次世界大战的逃难者，移民们，敞开了大门，因此雨果·西蒙斯(Hugo Simons)的家族对蒙特利尔充满感激。我们把这幅画视为我们珍藏品中的珍宝。

In fact many people not just from Montreal, but also from Canada, pay for this painting because everybody wanted to keep it as a treasure in Canada. So, it's a very very important and symbolic painting for all of us. 

事实上，很多不仅仅是来自蒙特利尔的人们，还有的来自加拿大，都愿意出钱购买这幅画，因为每个人都想把它作为加拿大的珍宝珍藏。 所以，这对我们所有人来说，都是一个非常重要的、具有象征性的绘画作品。

Yes it's a very touching story, absolutely! So we have many stories like that because many Jews came to Montreal during the Second World War and we have incredible stories of such victims and for many of them, it’s because they wanted to thank the city for welcoming them that's after that they gave the collection to our museum. 

是的，这绝对是个非常感人的故事!我们有很多这样的故 事，因为在第二次世界大战期间，有很多的犹太人来到蒙特利尔， 我们有很多类似的令人动容的故事，很多人都对这个城市心存感激，感激这个城市曾经接纳他们，于是在二战后，他们将这些收藏品捐赠给了我们博物馆。 

▲新建成的和平馆

It’s exactly the same story for the new pavilion for peace. We have a new building, we just opened one year ago, and the name is pavilion for peace. Why? because it has been built thanks to the money, the grant and the collection from two incredible donors, two people from Poland, who also flew from the second world war, and because they were Jews, and they decided when they were very old, to grant not only the museum but also hospitals and also universities, so there are wonderful example for all of us, and it's very important for us to remind those great ancestors.

新建的和平馆也有着同样的故事。我们建有一栋新楼，刚刚开放了一 年，我们将它称之为和平馆。 为什么这么称呼? 因为该馆的修建是为了感谢两位伟大的捐助者捐赠的资金和藏品。他们来自波兰，也是第二次世界大战的逃难者，由于他们都是犹太人，所以他们决定，当他们年老的时候，将他们的财产，不仅仅是捐赠给博物馆，还捐赠给医院以及大学。这对我们所有人来说都是一个很好的榜样。我们有必要时刻铭记这些伟大的先人们。 

 镇馆之宝04：《男子雕像》

▲西非马里多贡，《男子雕像》“Tintam Male Figure”

Yes so we have an incredible collection of African art, the collection is not very big but for some reasons we have a fabulous piece，very very rare, they dated seventeenth century. 

是的，所以我们有非常稀有的非洲艺术藏品，这些藏品不是很多，但由于某些原因，我们获得了一件非常罕见的杰作这个作品可以 追溯到17世纪。 

It is an ancestor seated on a chair, and it's comes from the Mali, it is a Dogon sculpture, made in wood. And as you know, wood, especially from the seventeenth century in Africa are very rare, because of the conservation issues, and this example is absolutely incredible and has been exhibited everywhere so this is a treasure we have in our collection. 

雕塑展示的是一个坐在座椅上的祖先。这座雕塑来自马里的多贡，用木材制作而成。由于保护问题，木材，特别是非洲17世纪 的木材，是非常罕见的。这个雕塑的存在完全让人难以置信，它已经在世界各地展出，所以这也是我们收藏的珍宝之一。 

We have also an incredible imperial armchair, throne, coming from the end of the Ming dynasty, the seventeenth century. And it's all in lacquer and look very very rich texture and we just discovered because we have a higher Curator for Chinese art in our collection. And now there was really incredible object because we didn't know that we had such a wonderful example of  Emperor throne, so this is also a treasure we will put on display within one year in our new ways for world cultures. 

宝座全部是漆制的，看起来质地非常多样，这个藏品是我不久前我们刚刚发现，因为我们有一名专门负责收藏中国艺术藏品的高级管理人。 我们还有一把来自明朝末期十七世纪的帝王的扶手椅，宝座。而今，这个发现真的是不可思议，因为我们不知道还有这样一 个皇帝宝座的精美藏品，所以，在接下来的一年内，我们也将这件作品拿出来展示，用我们新的方式理解世界文化。 

在博物馆里最难忘的事情

Yeah, the most impressive moment for me, yeah, let me think about that, I think that, once I was Curator because I'm an art historian, so I curated an exhibition on Cuban arts, and it was ten years ago. 

最令我难忘的时刻是，回想一下，最令我难忘的是我有一次担任策展人，因为我是一位艺术史学家，所以我策划了一场关于古巴艺术的展览。这已经是十年前的事了。 

▲蒙特利尔美术馆展厅内部

And this time Cuba and the United States were of course, in great tension. and the goal of this exhibition was really to show Cuban art coming from Cuba, coming from United States, in Canada. but Canada is such a peaceful country, so we were able to gather the best of the art, not only from Cuba, but also from United States, from new York, from Florida, all together in Montreal and that was a fabulous moment because everybody was so enchanted to see each other, and to discover, and to be so gratified with the beauty of Cuban art, without thinking about the war, about political tensions, so this is magic of Montreal.

那个时候，巴西和美国的关系非常紧张。这次展览 的目的实际上是展示来自古巴和美国的古巴艺术品，地点在加拿大。 加拿大是一个非常和平的国家，这也是为什么我们能够收集到最好的艺术品，有不仅仅来自古巴的，还有来自美国，纽约，佛罗里达的，所有的艺术精品都聚集在了蒙特利尔，这是一个美妙的时刻，因为 每个人都很高兴见到彼此，共同发现古巴艺术之美并为之陶醉，而不用考虑战争、考虑紧张的政治局势。这也是蒙特利尔的魅力所在。 

▲蒙特利尔美术馆展厅内部

And it was a great great moment for me as a human being. A museum is a perfect place where we can educate with our hearts not just with our brain because as human being, we have to learn not just with cognition, but also with our sensibility. And art is all about aesthetic emotion. And one is not a robot, were also animal. And so art is very important if we want to balance our rational and emotional behavior. 

作为一名人类，这对我来说是一个非常伟大的时刻。博物馆是一个非常棒的地方，在那里，我们可以洗涤心灵，而不仅仅是充实我们的大脑，因为作为人类，我们不仅要学习认知，还要 学习感知，而艺术，就是关于美感的。人不是机器人，是有情感的动物。如果我们想要平衡我们的理性行为和感性行为，艺术是非常重要的手段。