Admission opened for the 26th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium

CAIRO - 18 November 2020: On November 18, Egypt’s Cultural Development Fund sector began receiving applications to participate in the 26th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium, which is organized annually by the Fund’s sector in cooperation with Aswan Governorate. The admission is open until December 15, 2020.

Head of the Cultural Development Fund sector Fathy Abdel Wahab confirmed that the symposium had achieved great success during its previous editions at the hands of its founder, the late artist Adam Hanin, and had produced a generation of the most qualified sculptors in the world, and a unique open museum of its kind in the world that includes the product of its previous editions.

He pointed out that the Fund's sector has donated a number of sculptural works to beautify public fields in a number of governorates during the previous years.

It is noteworthy that what is new this year is the approval of the Supreme Committee of the Symposium, which includes a number of senior artists and professors of artistic colleges, to increase the number of young participants in the workshop and allow them to present collective work to create an expressive sculptural work that is formulated in a specific intellectual framework in accordance with the strategic plan of the state 2030, which seeks to human development, emphasizes the revival of heritage and expresses the Egyptian spirit in a contemporary form.

The 26th edition of the Symposium will begin its activities from January 19 to March 9, 2021.