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14. Seoul Olympic Arts
Festival
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To assist the sculptors of the second
group, the SLOOC organized four
work support units: Iron Sculpture
Support Unit A, Iron Sculpture Support
Unit B, Cast Iron Sculpture Support
Unit and Synthetic Resin Sculpture
Support Unit. Four Korean Sculptors,
Oh Sang-il, Won In-jong, Chang Shik
and Oh Ui-shik, were appointed to
supervise the operations of the support
units and work at factories, in cooperation
with the Korean members of the
Steering Committee.
Participants in the second session of
the symposium and their works:
• Jorge du Bon (Mexico): "The
Infinite Bridge," iron, 7.5x6x12m
• Alois Dubach (Switzerland): "Witness,
III" iron, 8.4x3.5x3m
• Edgar Negret (Colombia):
"Transfiguration," aluminium, concrete
and stainless steel, 4x10x4m
• Denis Oppenheim (U.S.A.): "Impersonation
Station," iron and aluminium,
9.8x13x9m
• Sorel Etrog (Canada): "Power Soul,"
iron, 7.2x7x4m
• Nigel Helyer (Australia): "Din,
Ding-Dang-Dong," iron, 17.5x17.5x5m
• Lee U-fan (Korea): "Relatum by
Omen," natural stone, corten-steel,
20x4m
• Lee Chong-gak (Korea): "Expanding
Space 88," cast bronze, 5x10x5m
• Magdalena Abakanowicz (Poland):
"Space of the Dragon," cast bronze,
10 pieces, each 4.2x2.3x2m
• Park Chong-bae (Korea): "Two Different
Objects Intersecting Each
Other," cast bronze, 7.5 x7.5 x 3m
• Nigel Hall (Great Britain): "Unity,"
cast bronze, 3.4 x 5.5 x 3m
• Gyula Kosice (Argentina): "Victory
Seoul-88," synthetic resin,
6.8 x 6.8 x 9m
• Susumu Shin-gu (Japan): "Wing's
Breath," stainless steel and fabrics,
35x3m
• Gunther Uecker (West Germany): "A
Knife Sculpture," wood, 3.2x3.2x4m
• Frans Krajcberg (Brazil): "A Moment
of Resistance," wood, 10x 10x6m
• Rafael Soto (Venezuela): "A Virtual
Sphere," aluminium, 9.6x9.6x12m
• Pol Bury (Belgium): "Mobile Fountain,"
stainless steel, 8x8x4m
• Robert Jacobsen (Denmark): "Le
Bateau lavoir," iron, 4x13x12m
• Valdomeo Cesar (France): "Thumb,"
cast bronze, 4x4x6m
14.2.2
World Invitational Open-Air
Sculpture Exhibition
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The World Invitational Open-Air
Sculpture Exhibition, like the International
Open-Air Sculpture Symposium,
had the twofold purpose of promoting
international exchange of art and making
the Olympic Park into one of the
best and largest sculpture parks in the
world. The exhibition differed from the
symposium, however, in that the
invited sculptors created their works in
their country and sent them for public
display during the Seoul Olympic Arts
Festival.
The preliminary selection of participating
sculptors was done by the
international members of the Olympiad
of Art Steering Committee as was
the selection of artists for the symposium.
Final selection was made in a
joint meeting of the committee's
Korean and international members.
The international members solicited
foreign sculptors to present their works
in the exhibition.
A total of 155 sculptures, one by each
artist, from 66 countries were displayed
in the World Invitational Open-Air
Sculpture Exhibition, which opened on
September 12,1988. The sculptures
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