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unusual facts about sculpture park



Buddha Park

Buddha Park, also known as Xieng Khuan (as well as other variations of the spelling), is a sculpture park located 25 km southeast from Vientiane, Laos in a meadow by the Mekong River.

Lao Buddhist sculpture

The religious art tradition of the region has received an original contemporary twist in the monumental fantastic sculpture gardens of Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat: Buddha Park near Vientiane, and Sala Keoku near Nong Khai, Thailand.

Sculpture by the Sea

In 1995 David Handley was living in Prague and visited an outdoor sculpture park in Klatovy, Northern Bohemia.


see also

Bradford Graves

Bradford Graves Sculpture Park opened May, 2010 in Kerhonkson, New York

Daniel Silver

Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy (2012); Acne Studios, London (2011); Coming Together, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2011); The Smoking Silver Father Figures, Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London (2010).

Goldwell

Goldwell Open Air Museum, outdoor sculpture park near the ghost town of Rhyolite in the U.S. state of Nevada.

Moelwyn Merchant

Examples of it stand on the campuses of the Universities of Stirling (Growing Form), Cardiff (British Triad) and Exeter (Ascending Form and Tension); at the Margam sculpture park at Port Talbot; and in All Saints' Church, Leamington Spa (Confrontation of Angels).

Tørskind Gravel Pit

Tørskind Gravel Pit is a former gravel pit converted to a sculpture park near Egtved, Vejle, Denmark.

Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross

Between 1951 and 1976, Sir William Keswick, who owned the Glenkiln estate, bought and arranged works by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Auguste Rodin, creating the world's first collection of sculpture in a landscape setting, Glenkiln Sculpture Park.