Valley: International Sculpture Symposium has opened

2021-09-07T09:49:58.083Z

In the sculpture clearing in Valleys they are again doing handicrafts: The international sculpture symposium opens on. Eight sculptors and artists work there for two weeks, visitors are welcome.

In the sculpture clearing in Valleys they are again doing handicrafts: The international sculpture symposium opens on.

Eight sculptors and artists work there for two weeks, visitors are welcome.

Hohendilching

- “We know the artists. We have nice weather. Then we can start now! ”There was a spirit of optimism in the sculpture clearing in Anderlmühle near Hohendilching when Emil Ahlhelm opened the 9th International Sculpture Symposium of the Kunstdünger Association on Sunday between imposing sandstone blocks with the presentation of the actors. The valley sculptor Tobel and his wife Christiane Ahlhelm have two weeks of international artists as guests there.

Last year Corona forced a minimal version.

This year, the joy of being able to live art again with a due distance was all the more noticeable.

“It is very good to be here again,” said Chris Peterson, opening the round of introductions.

The stone sculptor from Zwolle in the Netherlands was already there in Valley in 2017 - a “magical time”.

At that time he had placed his “Moon Trickle” made of deep gray Black Forest granite in the Mangfall, which currently has so much water that the object can only be guessed at.

He is currently building fences because he is worried about what separates people and what brings them together.

How will that work with the comparatively soft Palatinate sandstone, which is unfamiliar to him?

You could already see a few sketches on it.

Fences, thumbs and tights

Likewise on the blocks of the visibly excited Japanese Takeshi Kubo, who has a completely different approach to stone due to his cultural context. “It brings lightness to this incredibly heavy material,” explained the colleagues, of whom Fernando Pinto and Tobel worked together in Taiwan in 2010. Since then, people have followed each other's artistic paths that also led Pinto to the Mangfall. At the Reisach moated castle you can see how he worked on his dominant topic at the time. “It's the same,” he announced, “but this time completely different.” At home in Colombia, many are convinced of the stone as the memory of the world. Ancient knowledge that science has recently taken up. And don't stone components also need to be used for digital storage media?

While Tobel plans with “Identity” to leave his artistic thumbprint for Argentina and Taiwan back home, Teresa Glatt works on oak trunks with almost archaic power, intuitively and like a concentrate of her “anger about exploitation and not being seen by women". In the absence of the young woman from Munich, Christiane Ahlhelm read out her credo: "Women who fight are women who live."

Sibylle Kobus also wants to involve passers-by in the forest on the Mangfall in the observation and development of her pantyhose braid, which was stretched between the trees and covered in mosses and lichen, years ago.

A few steps further, Stefanie and Emmanuel Heringer put a mesh of metal, willow twigs and bark next to him.

“It should be a place for everyone to discover, reflect and enjoy”, the couple from Schechen promise.

It has already visited “this special place” a couple of times and found an ideal place on the piece of land that neighbor Beppo März is contributing to the sculpture clearing.