THE month-long competition to decide on the best sculpture among international participants is slowly drawing to a close in Didim as part of the Meandros Festival celebrations.
The 1st Didyma Stone Sculpture Symposium has featured five scultptors whose works will mark the start of an open air museum to complement the ruins of the Temple of Apollon.
The festival, which ends on july 27, has sought to fuse history and art together in highlighting the historical and cultural assets of Didim and surrounding areas, such as Güllübahçe and Ak-Yeniköy.
In the Sculpture Symposium, Gerardo Arribas Perez-Diaz from Spain; Taro Kitagawa from Japan; Ronald Romedius Steger from Italy; Ciumacu Valeriu from Ukraine, and Songül Telek, of Turkey, have laboured in hot conditions to create their muses.
The sculptures will be exhibited for a month in the garden of Cumhuriyet Elementary School across the Apollon Temple.
The Artistic Director of the Sculpture Symposium, Nilhan Sesalan stated the sculptors will bestow their sculptures to Didim.
Mr Sesalan said, “These works will be removed from the school garden after a month and will be placed at a certain space in the Yoran Village next to the Apollon Temple.
“The aim is to form an open air museum in the Yoran Village in the future.”
Japanese Taro Kitagawa expressed his pleasure of being in Didim and participating in the festival.
Ukrainian Ciumacu Valeriu said that he was very happy to bestow his statue named “Meandros Wave” to a historical city like Didim. Ciumacu said they were awaiting everybody to their exhibition on the 27th of June.
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