Foreign artists awarded at Tehran Intl. Sculpture Symposium

TEHRAN,May 18(MNA) -- Six foreign sculptors were honored during the closing ceremony of the Fifth Tehran International Sculpture Symposium at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Wednesday. Rumen Mihov Dimitrov, Petre Petrov and Nikolay Yotov from Bulgaria, Lenny Ratnasari Weichert from Indonesia, Christian Rey from Uruguay, and Mauricio Guajardo Rubio from Chile created works during the event, which opened on May 4. There are plans to hold another symposium within the next six months, which will center on stone and glass at that time, Mohammad-Javad Shushtari, Director of Tehran Municipality’s Beautification Organization said at the closing ceremony. The organization as the sponsor of the symposium will try to develop the idea in other cities in the near future, he added. Secretary of the symposium sculptor Saeid Shahlapur, also attending the closing ceremony, expressed hope that Tehran’s City Council would be willing to ratify the symposium to help the event from being halted during the coming years. Iranian wooden sculpture masters Jamshid Moradian and Mohammad-Hossein Emad, as the guests of honor at the symposium, were also honored at the ceremony. Among the participating Iranian sculptors were Mohammad Marvasti, Mehdi Rangchi, Ali Vaziri, Shahriar Rezaii, Samaneh Reihani and Fatemeh Majidi. The symposium ran from May 4 to 15 at the Noruz Park located on Africa Ave.