Giant Panda Art Exhibition – ‘Giant Panda Hugs the World’

The National Museum of Natural History is holding a Giant Panda Art Exhibition, callled Giant Panda Hugs the World, from 5 September to 31 October 2019 in Paris.

The exhbition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the ‘arriva’l of the Giant Panda to the wider world. In 1869 the French naturalist Armand David ‘discovered’ the Giant Panda in China’s Sichuan Province and wrote about the species scientifically for the first time, categorizing it Ailurpoda melanoleuca. Since then, the world has ‘seen’ the Giant Panda. And everyone loves the Giant Panda.

Eighty percent (80%) of the world’s Giant Panda’s are from Sichuan Province.

On 3 December 2011, China and France signed an agreement to cooperate in the protection of the Giant Panda.

On 15 January 2012, two Giant Pandas from the Chengdu Giant Panda Reproduction Research Base arrived in France by plane. The pandas were Yuanzi and Huanhuan.

On 4 August 2017, the female panda Huanhuan gave birth to a baby for the first time. On 4 December 2017, the First Lady Brigitte Macron baptisized the baby panda, declaring its name to be Yuan Meng, and officially become his godmother. On 4 August 2018, more than 1,000 French tourists assembled in the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan to celebrate his first anniversary.

In 2019, China is celebrating the 150th year of the Giant Panda’s exposure to the wider world, beginning in Paris, France.

The artists showing works in the Giant Panda Art Exhibition include Wu Changjiang, Zhang Zhihe, Zhang Qikai, Tian Ye, Camille Rophe, Liu Xiaoping, Mi Jinming, and Xie Ganghua.

Artist: Xie Ganghua

Artist: Wu Changjian

Artist: Camille Rophe

Artist: Mi Jinming

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Artist: Zhang Qikai

Artist: Zhang Zhihe

Artist: Liu Xiaoping

MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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