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Since 1982, the sections of the Sculpture Trail Rheinland-Pfalz have been growing closer from symposium to symposium. Today, over 50 sculptures grace the sculpture symposia which were brought to life by Jürgen Picard, the owner of the stone works in Krickenbach at Kaiserslautern and the initiator of the association "Sculptures Rheinland-Pfalz e. V." After 1982, the international artists of the symposia met in 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2005, in the brownstone-break at Schweinstal bei Krickenbach.

The 8th Sculpture Symposium in 2009, which took place from 23 August to 20 September 2009, was published in the spring catalog. There the works of the participants are described in detail by Dr. Liselotte Sauer-Kaulbach and Dr. Michaela Preiner, and presented with numerous photographs.

In 2009, participants included sculpture network members Rainer Fest from Berlin and Angelika Summa of Würzburg, as well as the sculptor Werner Bitzigeio from Winterspelt in der Eifel, (metal, stone), Albert Hettinger from Bitburg and Michael Dan Archer from Lincolnshire (GB).

The work "Think Thank-the message is inside" by Angelika Summa is found at the cemetery in Queidersbach. It shows a box made of about 2000 meters of wire rods and 1000 welded nodes with an inner box. Numerous coils are processed into a two meter high cube. The wire loops seem endless. No beginning, no end.

Rainer Fest, the "Stone Whisperer," creates new perspectives at the entrance to Trippstadt with the sculpture, or better described, the architectural structure "From here" („Von hier aus”) resembling a ladder to heaven. "Fest’s work shares with the pyramids not only the stairs, but also the archaic force that, even in considerably smaller dimensions, may overwhelmingly be felt." Dr. Liselotte Sauer-Kaulbach.

Catalogue: ISBN 978-3-00-029872-1,
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