ISSA Oman\ Sculpture Symposium on Peninsula Beach

The 2nd Musandam International Sculpture Symposium, and ISSA Oman was recently held in Oman.

 Five sculptors participated in this year's event. Organized by the Musandam Governor's Office and 

implemented by the Sohar Art Foundation, the sculpture symposium was held for the second consecutive 

year at the Bassa Tourism Beach in Hassab Wiryat, Musandam governorate. The sculpture symposium 

lasted for 24 days, and included a number of activities available to the public and artists.

 Curator Ali Al-Jabri said: “Sculpture has great importance. It has contributed to preserving human history, 

enriching civil elements throughout the ages, and conveying news of the past, their civilizations, ideas,

 and ways of life through sculptural work, through which man expressed his views and recorded his history.”

The participating artists present a number of sculptural works, where the artist Abdulaziz Al-Maamar

i presents a work that bears the identity of the city in Khasab and the intersection of its geographical and

 environmental features in a vertical work that reaches 3 meters in length and 90 cm in width.

The Georgian artist, Johnny Gogaberishvili, is heading to implement a crossing gate, which is the largest

 in size among the sculptures executed in the Sultanate of Oman using marble, as the diameter of 

the sculpture reaches 4.5 meters and is composed of 4 blocks of marble weighing more than 20 tons.

The Ukrainian artist Lyudmyla Mysko conveys the message of peace and security through her interactive work,

 which is represented in the form of a butterfly, with which the recipient interacts by providing a place to sit 

and integrate with the artwork. 

The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Asakawa, who performs an interactive artwork, which consists of two marble 

slabs facing each other or two speakers 14 meters away, with more than one recipient sharing it to measure 

the frequency of the sound and the diversity of its waves to create a physical state that is studied with 

great care and creates a smile among those interacting with it.

The artwork of the Tunisian artist Saifeddine Ben Hammad, which consists of four dolphins extending over

 a length of 12 meters, which he chose as one of the models of wildlife that characterizes the governorate. 

He sculpted them in a style with geometric divisions, which combines the fluidity of the dolphins’ 

movement with the waves of the sea.

The forum was managed by a specialized team from Sohart, led by the Omani sculptor and curator 

Ali Al-Jabri, and managed by the sculptor Ahmed Al-Shabibi. The team included collaborating sculptors

 Ayman Al-Awfi, Ahmed Al-Ajmi and Jaafar Al-Jabri, who worked to facilitate the sculptors’ task to complete 

their projects.

Contributor: ISSA Oman member, Ali Al-Jabri

Editor: Liu Qin, Song Mingcheng

Translator: Sun Ya’nan

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