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‘Henry Moore’, Tate Britain, London, to August 8: (www.tate.org.uk)
The Financial times February 27 reported on the exhibition, mentioning exhibits include 'Reclining Figure' (1939); ‘Atom Piece (Working Model for Nuclear Energy)’ (1964-65); ‘Tube Shelter Perspective: The Liverpool Street Extension’ (1941). Moore is described as trying to “broaden sculpture’s vocabulary beyond the classical and the fluid modeling of Rodin by exploring primitivism”

Invitation:
11th China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium &1st Arts Symposium of Changchun International Automotive Park Sculpture Proposal Invitation
(August 18 --- September 29, 2010)

Honourable sculptors:
Sincere greetings from Changchun, China﹗
With the theme of Excellence Passion Future Automobiles give us a better life, the 11th China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium and the 1st Arts Symposium of Changchun International Automotive Park will be held from August 18th to September 29, 2010, for promoting international cultural exchanges, sculpture construction of automotive culture and the urban grade of the city as well as expanding the citys international influence and popularity.
If you are interested in this event, you are warmly invited to deliver your applicant sculpture proposals, which may
include different works with stone and cast bronze as main materials, with highlighted themes with deep-seated
auto-culture contents to demonstrate the essence of auto-culture, with maximum size of 3.0-5.0 meters; and those works combining environment and theme of the symposium are especially appreciated.
http://en.changchun.gov.cn and www.ccsculpture.org provide you with more details of an anime introduction and a landscape building site-plan of the Changchun International Automotive Park.
If you want to apply for participating in it, we’d like you:
1. deliver at least three proposals by express or e-mail to the Organizing Committee of the symposium before April 15, 2010.
2. fill and print registration form attached with your passport-size photo and daily photo and resume, and digital photos are no less than 1.00M.
3. submit A4-size color design proposals or photographs of maquettes of proposed sculptures or their digital files in JPEG, BMP or TIF format (no less than 1M). Please specify exact materials, types, colors and dimensions of the proposed sculptures. And your sculpture portfolio is also appreciated. All the applicant proposals will be carefully and extensively reviewed by our nationally noted artists. If any of your proposals gets accepted by the Organizing Committee to be realized during the symposium, you will be officially invited to Changchun for creating it on site during the symposium. Then, you will get more details about your presence here. And also, you will be provided with followings:
1. A diploma of honor, picture album, souvenir and an allowance of US$2000, issued by the organizing committee.
2. Sightseeing activities in Changchun.
3. One or two assistants, materials for creating the sculpture and commonly used processing tools.
4. One-time round-trip economic flight tickets (between your residence and Changchun) and accommodations in Changchun.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to consult with us.

Best regards.
The Organizing Committee
The 11th China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium &
The 1st Arts Symposium of Changchun International Automotive Park
No.1893 Tongzhi Street, Changchun, 130021, P.R.China Tel:+86-431-85633717 Fax:+86-431-
85670603 E-mail: cciss2010@163.com or xuhuaiwu@yahoo.cn
Liaison: Phoebe
Editor Note: The Sculptors’ Society Bulletin of NSW includes photo and article of NSW member Larissa Smagarisnsky with a bronze sculpture in Changchun p.8 of March-April Bulletin 2010.