There are big celebrations throughout Beijing and other Olympic venue cities for the one year anniversary until the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The 2008 Olympics Landscape Sculpture was opened on August 5th. The main event was a big ceremony held in Tiananmen Square at 7pm.
There is an Olympics Landscape Sculpture Traveling Exhibition from Aug 5 to 11 at the China Millennium Monument at Yuyuantan Park in Beijing in honor of the one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.As one of the activities organized by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), the exhibition displays over three hundred pieces and sets of landscape sculpture, as well as photos of the worldwide roving exhibition, which was launched on August 8, 2005.
The exhibits, made of bronze, iron, aluminium, stainless steel and other raw materials, were selected from 2,450 entries submitted by artists from 82 countries.
Until now they have been displayed in nearly twenty cities at home and abroad, such as Tianjin, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Macao, London, Los Angeles and Seoul.
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1 comment:
why didn;t you guys pose with this sculpture?
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