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sculpture network’s XIV International Forum will discuss „Sculpting Nature: Land Art, EcoArt and BioArt”
The meeting of international artists, experts and collectors will take place in Belgium from 29 September to 1 October, 2016
Art
Grasping into the marble or through it or embracing the stone?
Milena Naef received an award for her final study work in Cristallina marble at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam
Chelsea Flower Show: a garden in a stone rather than a stone in a garden
The most important garden show in all of England was the venue for an artist’s experiment: using a granite block beholders experienced greenery in an entirely new way
„Peace“ is the theme of the 2nd Bisanthe Stone Sculpture Symposium at the Marmara Sea
From September 19 – October 14, 2016 the shores of the city of Tekirdağ will see artists creating works in local Marmara marble
25-ton granite sculpture „Continuum“ by artist Darrell Petit now permanently on show outside the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
The piece was designed to appear as though it is hovering over the ground
Mathieu Lehanneur: snapshots of water’s surface in marble
The artist shows his installation entitled „Petite Loire“ at France’s International Garden Festival of the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
A ship made of marble prisms commemorating slave trade across the Atlantic
The sculpture at the entrance to the UN Headquarters bears the inscription „Ark of Return“, and won one of MIA’s 2015 Pinnacle Awards
Rites and processions from ancient Athens: a story of love, longing, violence, death and reconciliation
Exhibiton in Frankfurt/Main, Germany focuses on the city goddess Athena and the Golden Age of Pericles
Roman Mosaics across the Empire, on view until September 12, 2016, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A.
„Elaborately designed floors of mosaic tiles were an essential element of luxury living,“ says director Timothy Potts
Modern natural stone mosaic in a Warsaw dwelling complex
Artist Lubosz Karwat transposed the four ancient elements to stylized portraits of women
Berninis marble „Animas“ show a nymph and a satyr not salvation in heaven and punishment in hell
Arts History professor David García Cueto (University of Granada) analizes unpublished documents from the Archivio Storico Capitolino
Stone sculptors’ symposia scheduled for the months ahead in 2016
High times for hammer and chisel
Zaha Hadid: also with stone she was avant-garde and futuristic
The British-Iraqi architect brought concrete and also marble to new designs
4th Stone Carvers’ Festival in the Russian region of Perm Kray
From July 4th to 9th, 2016 a competition, master classes, visits to carvers’ exhibitions and more will be held near the Ural
Turkish sculptor Serdar Kaynak has made duality one of his central themes
The artist is particularly interested in the duality of contrast and reciprocal dependence