Message of the Second Amabiki Village and Sculpture

In the spring of 1996, a group of sculptors having worked on stone at Yamato village held an exhibition “Amabiki Village and Sculpture” with the aim to recognize again the rural scenery.
Succeeding the concept of the 1st exhibition, we started to make a plan for the 2nd exhibition in autumn 1997 with the participation of not only stone sculptors but also artist of various genres.
Such a difficult condition to bear all expenses for the exhibition didn’t shrink artists from participating.
And 27 of them accepted it and we began to from the exhibition.
Having held several conferences with participants, public officials of Yamato village and chiefs of wards, artists looked around the grounds to find out suitable location for their works.
And after fiding the location out, artists directly asked land owners to obtain permission.
Concerning printed posters and invitations cards, designer and printer helped to collaborated with us.
Finally, we could realise the “2nd Amabiki Village and Sculpture”.
Our combined energies to build up this exhibition and through the sculptures playing a part of the rural scene of Amabiki.
that people would start to reconsider the cultural situation of Japan.


Executive Committee of
Amabiki Village and Sculpture