甘比亞位於非洲西部為我國邦交國之一，本著敦睦邦交精神，該國派遣5位藝術家到臺北藝術大學進修與文化交流，並創作該國首部動畫影片，本展覽以非洲生活、文化為主題，透過藝術家們的巧思轉化成動畫影片，對於甘比亞動畫藝術的推廣有劃時代意義。本次展出除了幾位來自甘比亞藝術家作品外，也邀請幾位國內藝術家對非洲印象做創作，本著實驗動畫精神與生活文化為文本，作品內容包羅萬象，有別於現今一般娛樂內容的動畫形式。本展覽著重思考性、批判性與繪畫性，此理念與本次策展強調動畫藝術性的性質不謀而合，值得推薦給大眾觀賞動畫教育的另一種面貌，一些來自甘比亞和台灣年輕優秀動畫師的視覺想像。

 

Gambia is one of our diplomatic countries that located at West Africa. Based on the purpose of diplomatic friendship, five Gambian artists were sent to visit Taipei National University of Art for advanced studies and produce their first animated film. The topic of this exhibition is life and culture in Africa, converted into animated film by the ingenuity of artists. It’s a great landmark of popularizing Gambian animated artwork. This exhibition contains artworks from Gambian artists, and also invited some local artists to creating works based on the impression of Africa. Using the experimental animation as the purpose, and the life and culture as the text, the creations are all-inclusive, but different from the entertainment animation forms nowadays. This exhibition focused on thoughtful, critical and painting skills. This idea coincides with the artistic of animation that emphasized in this curatorial. These visual imagery from excellent Gambian and Taiwanese animators, are recommended to the messes for viewing the different side of educational animation. 

 

動畫藝術隨著網際網路傳播與動畫設計教育的快速發展，已成為當代最熱絡的一種富含人文、美學、社交、經濟等多元的文化活動。相對於純藝術的艱澀難懂，動畫藝術反而更能以一種活潑鮮明的風格形式深入社會各個階層領域，反映當代特有的物質生活與精神涵養，更同時扮演著舉足輕重的地位－主流文化與次文化之傳遞角色。甘比亞首次在台灣舉辦動畫藝術展，正式宣布該國動畫創作的出現，結合台灣動畫蓬勃發展，透過本次安排於台北數位藝術中心的交流展出，無疑是對動畫藝術國際化與跨文化的最佳宣傳。

 

The animation art had becoming a popular cultural activities that rich in humanities, aesthetic, social, economic and etc. in the wake of internet communication and education of animation design. Relative to the purely artistic that hard to understand, animation art can penetrate deeply into different fields of the community easily with a lively and distinctive style. It responses the material life and spiritual cultivation in contemporary era, and plays a decisive role that delivers the mainstream culture and subculture. This is the first time that Gambia holds animation art exhibition in Taiwan, that officially announced the animation creation had appeared in Gambia. This exchange exhibition set in Taipei Digital Art Center, combined with the booming of Taiwanese animation, is undoubtedly a best promotion for internationalization and intercultural of animation art.