Forma Viva

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Forma Viva is a sculpture symposium that has been held regularly at various locations in Slovenia since 1961 . The main venues are on the Seča peninsula in Portorož (stone sculptures ) and in Kostanjevica na Krki (wooden sculptures). Individual symposia were also held in Ravne na Koroškem (steel) and in Maribor ( reinforced concrete ). The sculpture symposium was initiated by the two Slovenian sculptors Jakob Savinšek and Janez Lenassi , who were participants in the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium , which first took place in 1959 in St. Margarethen in Burgenland in the Roman quarry there.

Forma Viva is one of the few symposia that can look back on almost 50 years of tradition and is still taking place today (2010). Around 300 sculptures were created in the various symposia over a period of around 50 years.

Stone carving symposium in Seča

Hommage aux patriotes tombés pour la liberté of the Forma Viva 1963 by Achiam

In the first year of Forma Viva (1961), 22 international participants took part in the Forma Viva Symposium in Istria . Since then, the symposia in Seča have taken place every two years in an uninterrupted sequence. To this day, sculptors from 30 countries have taken part in these symposia, creating more than 120 stone sculptures. The symposia are very popular with up to 30,000 visitors.

The majority of the stone sculptures are located in the park of the Seča peninsula ( ⊙ ) on the Adriatic Sea and a smaller part in the parks of Koper , Izola and Piran . The stone sculptures are made of hard and durable light Istrian karst marble , a local limestone . The Istrian limestone was due to its durability u. a. used for the historical foundations of Venice in the water.

The participants of the symposium in 2009 were Li Zhao ( China ), Chris Peterson ( Netherlands ), Peter Roller (Slovenia) and Gorazd Poposki ( Macedonia ; now lives and works in New York ). Her sculptures were placed in Strunjan and Portorož. The 2009 symposium was dedicated to the founder of the symposium movement Karl Prantl , who was unable to come due to illness.

Wood carving symposia in Kostanjevica na Krki

Parallel to the stone carving symposia in Seča, wood carving symposia have also been held in Kostanjevica na Krki in southeastern Slovenia since 1961. These symposia were also held annually until 1966, then biennially (no 1988–1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forma Viva Open Air Stone Sculpture Collection . Accessed June 22, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Information on sculpture-network.org ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 21, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sculpture-network.org
  3. ↑ Information on the website of culturalprofiles.net . Retrieved July 21, 2010
  4. ↑ Delovišče Forme vive na polotoku Seča October 21 - October 17, 2009. Accessed July 24, 2010
  5. ^ Forma Viva Open Air Wood Sculpture Collection, Kostanjevica na Krki . Accessed June 22, 2010
  6. ↑ Participant of the Forma Viva in Kostanjevica na Krki from 1961 to 2008

7. "Forma viva e il dibattito sulla scultura contemporanea slovena", Lusi Breulj, magistral degree, University of Trieste, Trieste (Italy), 2012.