Sculpture Symposium

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Love throne by Leo Kornbrust on the street of the sculptures near St. Wendel

A sculptor symposium (also known as a sculptor symposium) is an event at which several sculptors or other creators of plastic works of art, such as metal sculptors or ceramic artists, come together and design and create sculptures in a joint workshop or workplace . The artists live and work together, deal with the same material or the same topic and form a common forum.

Symposium character

While the sculptors in their creative process usually designed and worked a work of art alone in their workshops, if necessary also commissioned helpers with detailed work, they design and work their work in sculpture symposia on a common workplace - sometimes also on the later installation site. With this new form, these almost always international symposia, there was the opportunity to bring together sculptors from different artistic directions, nations and countries, for artistic and human exchange, as well as in later symposia for the joint design of a square or a joint work of art.

This new form of sculptural work has found worldwide dissemination in many other sculptor symposia since it began in 1959. In the meantime, this variety of symposia that have taken place is subsumed under the term “symposium movement”.

history

The history of the sculpture symposia is relatively young. The symposium of European sculptors in the Roman quarry St. Margarethen , initiated by the Austrian artist Karl Prantl in 1959, is seen as the starting point for this form of artistic work. It was also Karl Prantl who in 1985 convinced the then director Barbara Wally to combine the symposium idea with artistic teaching. Since 1986 the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg , founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka , has offered a stone carving class in its course program.

In 1961 the first sculpture symposium of the Federal Republic, the sculpture symposium Kaisersteinbruch , took place in Gaubüttelbrunn near Kirchheim in Lower Franconia. The participants were Herbert Baum , Joachim-Fritz Schultze-Bansen , Joseph Henry Lonas , Menashe Kadishman , Jakob Savinšek , Karl Prantl , Janez Lenassi , Erich Reischke , Moshé Schwartz and Yasuo Mizui . There the artists found out about the construction of the Berlin Wall and some of them spontaneously decided to go to Berlin. From October 1961 to the summer of 1962 they worked on the Reichstag grounds in the so-called Wall Symposium .

The Forma Viva sculpture symposium in present-day Slovenia in Portorož on the Seča peninsula and in Kostanjevica na Krki also took place in 1961, which was largely initiated by the sculptors Jakob Savinšek and Janez Lenassi.

The sculpture symposium Krastal in Krastal in Carinthia , Austria, took place for the first time in 1967 and has been carried out every year without interruption until today (2010), which has not been achieved by any other organizer until now. Furthermore, in July 2009 the first sculptors' symposium in Krastal took place, at which seven international participants created sculptures.

The first international sculpture symposium in the GDR was the Hoyerswerda sculpture symposium , which was organized in the summer of 1975 by artists from the GDR and Eastern European countries. The meeting took place under the title "Peace, Happiness and Friendship" in Hoyerswerda .

The number of symposia has increased sharply since around 1980 , and they are often given a common theme or a common location is chosen where the sculptures are set up. Numerous symposia take place in connection with the creation of sculpture paths.

A new and special form of artistic examination in a sculpture symposium was chosen in 2003 by the Obernkirchen sculpture symposium , whereby the sculpture symposium that has been taking place for years was supplemented by an interactive sculpture symposium; Here a sculptor abroad develops a design on the Internet, which is worked out in natural stone by another local artist in cooperation . Artists plan and draw an image abroad and post it on the Internet, whereupon an executive sculptor converts the drawing into natural stone on site. The artists communicate through the digital medium. The development and the result of the work of art will be published worldwide and discussed on site.

Karl Prantl , one of the “fathers” of the symposium movement, wrote around 1959: “ Thinking of us sculptors ourselves, it is so that through the experiences of St. Margarethen, through this going out into the open space - into the quarry, into the meadows - became free again. It was about this release or free thinking in a very broad sense. For us sculptors, the stone is the means to come to this free thinking - to free yourself from many constraints, narrowness and taboos. "

Sculpture symposia (selection)

Since the first sculpture symposium in St. Margarethen in Burgenland, a so-called “symposium movement” has developed, which organizes symposia with sculptors from different countries up to the present day (2010).

Australia

Germany

Austria

Slovakia

Slovenia

Czech Republic

Hungary

Across national borders

literature

Web links

Commons : Sculpture Symposium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Susanne Tunn and Barbara Wally (eds.): 20 years stone sculptor symposium on Untersberg 1986-2006 . P. 8ff and p. 106ff. Salzburg 2007
  2. ^ Zeidler & Wimmel (eds.): Building in natural stone. 200 years of Zeidler & Wimmel. Quarries, stonemasons, stone industry. P. 100 ff. Bruckmann. Munich 1976
  3. A chronology of the sculpture symposia in the Krastal by Heliane Wiesauer-Reiterer on krastal.com (PDF; 278 kB). Retrieved July 31, 2010
  4. 42nd International Sculptor Symposium 2009 “kunstwerk krastal” in cooperation with the women's department of the city of Villach, the women's department of the State of Carinthia and the Villacher Alpenstraße AG (PDF; 1.4 MB). Retrieved July 31, 2010