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Golden medal in the International Competition of Sculpture of the Olympic Games of 2008 in Beijing...

2006: Sponsored by the steering Committee of the Games of the XXIXth Olympiad in 2008 in Beijing and several associations and foundations, the international exhibition of landscaped sculpture received 2433 suggestions by the sculptors of about 90 countries.
In 2006, a first selection by a jury consisted of specialists coming from China, United States, Italy, Germany, England, Austria and South Korea select 290 of them to participate in a national tour, by visiting the cities of Tianjin, Xiamen, Changchun, Lanzhou, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Nanning, Ningbo, Guangzhou and Shenzhen …

2007: A second selection in 2007 preserved 110 projects for an itinerant exhibition in Beijing, Shanghaï, Hong-Kong, Macao, then a world tour in Rome, Barcelona, Moscow, Seoul, Atlanta, Geneva, London...

April 2008: Qualification of 58 sculptors for finale of the Competition on the return to this long trip.

May 2008: During the ceremony of the prize-giving which ' is unwound in Beijing on May 31st, 2008, as four of her colleagues respectively of Mexican and Chinese nationality, Joël STRILL receives the golden medal of the International Competition of Sculpture of the Olympic Games of 2008 in Peking for its entitled sculpture: "The" Flowering" …

Sculpture, to whom wants to intend inviting us in " To Be ", " to Increase ", to make the " Link" between the Earth and the Cosmos, in a collection of absolute, ideal but above all to spread us …

In the end, the monumental sculptures are implanted in a park around the Olympic stadium in Beijing.

Link of this actuality: http://en.olympic.cn/news/general/2008-06-02/1487895.html

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