Kalle, Kercal, Aswan, Yuzi Paradise

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Apologies if you have recieved this. Having not had it show up in my
in box I can only assume it made it to no one else's in box when I
sent it previously. Here goes again

George, it only gets worse.

Hello to all those who want yet more granite sculpture to look at and
think about.  Through Ton Kalle web listings I have come upon the
Kercal  and Aswan Symposia.  There are many other symposia Kalle
mentions participating in in his Aswan C.V. which I could not find a
trace of.  But other Aswan participants have provided long lists of
Symposia to trail down.  I am going to rest it right here for a while
and hopefully you will enjoy some of the game I have scared up as I
have tracked Kalle through the thicket of the web. You can either self
tour or follow highlights along the trail that I pursued which
includes some interested side trips as well.  Patrice Belin, Norio
Takaoka and Peter Bar are workers whose sculpture stood out
particlarly to my eye.  The main sites for the two symposia are listed
directly below.  Enjoy!  Bill
Kercal
http://www.comblainaupont.be/sympo/
Aswan
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/about_e.htm

Ton Kalle has been in the kitchen baking up a crusty split top muffin
http://www.comblainaupont.be/images/sympo/2004/040802-sympo-Kalle.JPG

He has done a wonderful thing  to devolop a base like member into  a
full partner with the lead muffin.  It is a suggestion of a countertop
or cutting board.  The contrasting color sets off the ochreous crust
in a painterly warm/cool way.  Mysterious treatment of  the contact
between stones as though the grey were recessed somewhat clumsily and
the ochre were reduced and inset.

Kalle has as web-site apparently, http://www.tonkalle.nl/ , but server
access is forbidden, I can't imagine why.   Does anyone know, or can
others access this for some reason while I cannot?

[URL now obsolete]
Detail and short paragraph on sensibility

http://www.comblainaupont.be/sympo/
This is a wonderful symposium site with good progess pictures of the
carvers going at it in 2002 only.

Tantalizing work by Patrice Belin
http://images.google.com/images?q=patrice+belin&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=0&sa=N&filter=0

And textural work by Peter Bar
http://www.comblainaupont.be/sympo/2002bar.html

Plenty of other interesting stuff.

Two stone artists here, one staight, one weird, as in what is that
barnicle texture?
http://home.wanadoo.nl/galeriedomarte/salonexpositie.htm

Aswan Granite Symposium!!  The galleries are extensive and the videos
look very interesting.  Those with fast hook-ups can perhaps inform us
slow pokes as to what lies herein.  I also have a Bill tour of the
Galleries for those in a hurry or who knows what

http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/about_e.htm

Bill's spottings of interest,  mostly mild.   The work of Norio
Takaoka in this symposium really great.

http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/Goran-Cpjak%2096.jpg
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/Janichi-sato-2000.jpg

Intersting but not quite successful attempt at vertical piece
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/alfey-vevern-2002.jpg

Wow  Not sure what I am looking at, the dark marks.  Norio Takaoka
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/noroyokata-kaweka-2002.jpg

http://images.google.com/images?q=Norio+Takaoka&hl=enhttp://images.google.com/images?q=Norio+Takaoka&hl=en

Patrice Belin
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/batris2004.jpg

Nondescript but pleasant
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/orka2004.jpg

What is this curiousity?
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/Roland-Anderson-97.jpg

One way to gain height
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/hartwig-rainer-97.jpg

One way to make a stong impression
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/kim-Seung-Hwan-97.jpg

http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/20.jpg

http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/27.jpg

I like the one in the background.  I don't know if it is real or not,
but there is a suggestion of a subsidence in the surface which
combines well with the ballooned form
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/17.jpg

Don't forget Yuzi Paradise

My favorites by what's his name.  I can't believe my eyes
sometimes

http://www.yuzi-paradise.com/china/art/artist/1006/big/1005.jpg
http://www.yuzi-paradise.com/china/art/artist/1006/big/1012.jpg
http://www.yuzi-paradise.com/china/art/artist/1006/big/1006.jpg

And of course the symposium with scores of photos of work none of
which can be enlarged.

I like Yuzi Paradise!

Bill