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COMPETITION OF LITERARY SCULPTURE - SPAIN

Ingrandisci la fotoDeadline: September 16th, 2013.

A Spanish Municipality calls the public contest for the artistic project of monumental sculpture on literary figure for the sculptural-artistic development of the historical center of the City, on occasion of the Centennial of the First edition of the book.

In definitive, the competition has as purpose to begin the outdoors Museum as the Commemoration of the Centennial.
The sculpture will be the first of a group of thematic sculptures around the literary figure and that will mark a route whose the line driver will be indicated by personage's footprint: a group of prints in the pavement.

PARTICIPANTS
They will be able to participate in this competition the companies, profession and artists. The participation is available for individual or team, in this case it is necessary a representative of the group.
Each artist or in team can present just one a proposal to the competition.

LOCATION
The winner artwork will be installed in a square of the city.
The sculpture has to be integrated in the public road, so that becomes an active element inside the citizen life and symbolic element for the visit to the City.

TERMS CONDITION
The project has to be original and unpublished, not selected in any other contest or competition, and not reproduce total or partial part of other works carried out or in execution.

The topic will be personage's literary figure. This first work, with which starts the Open Museum, it has to be conceived as a naturalistic work, realist, but at the same time it is an idealized personage whose vocation is being surrounded, caressed, hugged.
The monument will be realized in bronze to natural size without base or pedestal, although other complementary materials can be used that have to be considered suitable in order to the location. The material has to be proof to the atmospheric agents and of the use of people to guarantee a strong durability of the monument.

PRIZE
The project selected as winner will receive a prize (12.000eu/15,730usd+vat) for the commission of the work.
The artists will keep in mind that the amount will cover any step of the project: idea, model, development of the project until the execution to real scale, royalties, realization and transport. The Municipality will be charge for the definitive installation.

The Municipality will take charge of the necessary work for the installation of the sculpture and the adaptation of the place, in agreement with the author for technicians detail and of schedule, the committing engage self them to guarantee the agreed terms.
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