Sculpture Symposium Villány
The Villány Sculpture Symposium took place in Nagyharsány near Villány in Hungary . Basically, the symposium should be named after this place.
Sculpture Symposium
In 1968 the sculpture symposium took place as an international event in which both Hungarian and international sculptors took part. The venue of this symposium is an abandoned quarry in the Villány Mountains in the northeastern part of the district, on Nagyharsány-hegy Mountain, where a gray limestone was extracted.
Sculptors who participated in it were, among others:
- Mathias Hietz ( Austria ), the initiator of the Lindabrunn Sculpture Symposia , which took place from 1967 to 1997.
- Pierre Székely ( France )
- Miloslav Chlupáč ( Czech Republic )
- Gyula Pauer ( Hungary )
- Bencsik István (Hungary)
- Colin Foster ( Great Britain )
- Ido Maggi ( Italy )
- Jan Timmer ( Netherlands )
- Paula Salmela ( Finland )
- Elizabeth Juan (Austria)
- Emanuela Camacci (Italy)
- Maekawa Yoshiharu ( Japan )
- Work of the sculptors in the quarry
Mathias Hietz: Idea
Colin Foster: Hajo (1985)
Remarks
- ↑ Another active quarry on the western flank of Nagyharsány-hegy does not contain any sculptures.
Coordinates: 45 ° 51 ′ 22 ″ N , 18 ° 25 ′ 49 ″ E