• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 28 / 2011

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2011.09.27 - 09:17:01 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu /Camagüey, Cuba.- The 5th Terracotta International Symposium counts with the presence of Cuban Ceramist Martha Jiménez, UNESCO´s Prize winning artist, the event is to be underway until the upcoming October 2nd in Eskisehir, Turkey.

The event is sponsored by the Eskisehir´s city hall, and includes the participation of Cuban artists along with  four foreign artists such as Achim Kuhn and Dorit Bereach from Germany, Kim Yong from Korea and Peter Randall from England as well as ten Turkish artists.

The event´s program includes scientific meetings, craft exhibitions, artistic spectacles, contest, musical contests and traditional art fairs.

The invited artists have the chance to create sculptures as well as placing them in different places in Eskisehir city, given that the Terracotta International symposium promotes the utilization of natural elements to demonstrate the ample possibilities in creating work of arts made of clay.

Ceramist Martha Jiménez excels in the usage of clay that is precisely the element with which she worked in the group of sculptures that belongs to the El Carmen square in the Camagüey city.  The famous “chismosas” works that are integrated to the picturesque sculptures of that area, located in the ancient section of the city, granted Martha Jiménez the UNESCO´s prize.

Martha Jiménez, who is graduated from painting, drawing, ceramic and engraving, is a professor of art since 30 years ago. She was among the prizewinners artists in the Vasijas de Shangai Biennial in 2010 as well as in the year 2009 in the artistic program entitled “Residencia Primavera” (Spring Residence) which is announced by the International Diseños de Alto de Chavón Institute in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and recognized with the National Culture distinction, Martha Jiménez , has exhibited her work in museums, galleries and events held in France, Spain, Chile, Canada and The United States. By Miozotis Fabelo Pinares and Translated by: Juan Carlos Caballero Puig