Sculpture Symposium
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
- Barossa Sculpture Symposium in the Barossa Valley in South Australia , 1988 and 2008
Germany
- Sculpture symposium Kaisersteinbruch near Gaubüttelbrunn in Lower Franconia, 1961
- Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1963 in Berlin , the so-called Wall Symposium , 1961–1963
- Oggelshausen sculpture symposium in Oggelshausen in Baden-Württemberg , 1969/1970 and 2000
- Symposion Urbanum , Nuremberg, 1971
- Street of Sculptures near St. Wendel in Saarland , since 1971
- First Hoyerswerda sculpture symposium near Hoyerswerda in Saxony , 1975
- 1st Bochum sculpture symposium , 1979/80
- Obernkirchen sculpture symposium in Obernkirchen in Lower Saxony , since 1988
- Sculpture symposium 1991 in Syke
- International sculpture symposium "Art in Stone" in Wunsiedel , since 1994
- Stones on the river in Konz and Oberbillig , 1999 and 2001
- Sculptures on the river in Konz, 2007
Austria
- Sculpture symposium St. Margarethen near St. Margarethen in Burgenland , since 1959
- Sculpture symposium Lindabrunn near Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn in Lower Austria , 1967 to 1997
- Krastal sculpture symposium , from 1967
- European Symposium Kaisersteinbruch at Kaisersteinbruch in Burgenland , 1998 to 2007
Slovakia
- Vyšné Ružbachy sculpture symposium in Vyšné Ružbachy , from 1964
Slovenia
- Forma Viva sculpture symposium near Portorož on the Seča peninsula and Kostanjevica na Krki , since 1961
Czech Republic
- Metal sculptor - Hefaiston symposium at Helfštýn Castle near Přerov , 1981 to the present day
- Sculpture Symposium Hořice bei Hořice , 1966 to the present day
- Granite Symposium in Milevsko , 1992 to 1996
Hungary
- Sculpture symposium Villány near Villány , from 1968
Across national borders
- Street of Peace from Paris to Moscow from 1971 to the present day
literature
- Wolfgang Hartmann (Hrsg.): The sculpture symposium: Origin and development of a new form of collective and artistic work . Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7757-0263-6
- Alfred Weidinger (Ed.): We want to set standards. 50 years of the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium . Weitra 2009, ISBN 978-3-900000-46-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Tunn and Barbara Wally (eds.): 20 years stone sculptor symposium on Untersberg 1986-2006 . P. 8ff and p. 106ff. Salzburg 2007
- ^ Zeidler & Wimmel (eds.): Building in natural stone. 200 years of Zeidler & Wimmel. Quarries, stonemasons, stone industry. P. 100 ff. Bruckmann. Munich 1976
- ↑ A chronology of the sculpture symposia in the Krastal by Heliane Wiesauer-Reiterer on krastal.com (PDF; 278 kB). Retrieved July 31, 2010
- ↑ 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