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Fifth China Changchun World Sculpture Conference opens

Updated: Sep 8, 2017 chinadaily.com.cn Print
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The opening ceremony of the 5th China Changchun World Sculpture Conference is held in Changchun on Sept 7.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

With the theme of "World Sculpture in Changchun", the 5th China Changchun World Sculpture Conference is to be held at Changchun sculpture museum from Sept 7 to 8, according to the opening ceremony of the event undertook on Saturday.

The organizers said that the two-day event will attract more than 300 artists from over forty countries at home and aboard.

Song Chunhua, the vice-minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Cheng Taining, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vladimir Prokoptsov, the chief curator of the Republic of Belarus National Gallery and Alexander Sedov, the chief curator of the State Museum of Oriental Art will attend and deliver speeches at the 5th international cities' world sculpture summit, which will be hosted during the event.

In addition, six seminars, thirteen themed exhibitions will be also taken place.

"Changchun, a developing city with long history, has successfully held eighteen international sculpture invitation exhibitions and four world sculpture conferences. More than thousand of the artists from worldwide have been here with their works", said Wang Junzheng, Party Secretary of Changchun, at the opening ceremony.

The China Changchun World Sculpture Conference is held every three year. From more than 200 countries, over 1,400 sculptural works have been exhibited, eleven volumes have been published to date.

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