Studio Sem

2007 Leicester University exhibition “Masters and Emerging Artists from Studio Sem

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Also running parallel with the exhibition is a series of outdoor summer courses at the Botanic Garden, run by the University’s Richard Attenborough Centre entitled Art in the Garden. Participants will work on drawing, painting, sculpting and watercolour sketching, guided by Richard Attenborough Centre tutors Anna Revill, Austin Orwin, Diane Hall and Peter Clayton.For visitors who are happy merely to come and enjoy an exhibition of international sculpture, the work of 36 artists from the famous Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy, will be on show at the gardens through July and August and into September.

In the 1960s Studio Sem, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, saw the creation of works by Henry Moore, Alicia Penalba, André Bloc, Georges Adam, Pierre Dmitrienko, Branko Ruzic and Emile Gilioli.Some internationally acclaimed artists to have emerged more recently from the Studio, whose work will be on display in this year’s exhibition, include Barry Flanagan, Knut Steen, Maja van Hall, Ans Hey and Helaine Blumenfeld.It is Helaine Blumenfeld who has been the inspiration behind the University’s Sculpture in the Garden exhibitions since they started five years ago.

She commented: “This exhibition provides an exceptional opportunity to see a cross-section of sculpture being produced by sculptors of every age group – early 20s to mid 80s – and from Norway, Holland, France, Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, England, Sweden, Canada, the USA and Argentina.

“All these sculptors have worked in the same great studio in Pietrasanta, a studio which is itself a legend for having produced the works of so many great sculptors and which this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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