Village faces
Queen of the Netherlands visited new sculpture project 'Village Faces'
Beatrix the queen of the Netherlands (herself a sculptor) visited on the 19th of June the New sculpture project ‘Dorpsgezichten’ (Village Faces). This project is an initiative from sculptor Adri A.C. de Fluiter and the foundation NatureArt Drenthe. The foundation is organising since 2005 yearly an international art in nature symposium (with exhibition) in the forest near the small village Schoonoord. This village belongs to the municipality Coevorden. Every year10 artists are selected on certain themes. 
Talking with Stefan Ester Talking with Francois Geissmann
Sculptural works which are made in this symposium get a second life in the project that the queen was visiting. In this project, that runs till 2012, there are placed about 20 sculptures/installations in eight village also belonging to Coevorden. On the 19th of June it was the first fase of the project with realising 7 artworks. The queen was visiting them all and she was very pleased by the result. ‘Amazing’she said ‘such a quality and such nice, very well chosen locations’.
From know on the people can visit this trail of about 40 kilometers with the villages: Schoonoord, Wezuperbrug, Wezup, Zweeloo, Aalden, Meppen, Gees en Oosterhesselen. www.coevorden.nl
Artist working for this first fase are: Rumen Mihof Dimitrov - BUL (Schoonoord) – Giant Chairs, Andrea Thompson – USA (Wezup) – The Laborer’s Banquet, François Geissmann – F ( Zweeloo) –Meditation Tree, Stefan Ester – G (Aalden) – Green Revolution, David Kochavi – ISR (Meppen) – Bullders, Paolo Vivian – IT (Gees) – Menhir Memory, Gwenaël Stamm – F (Oosterhesselen) – The Drift.
Giant Chairs - Rumen Mihov Dimtrov - Bulgary
The Laborer's Banquet, Andrea Thompson - USA
Meditation Tree, Francois Geissmann - France
Green Revolution, Stefan Ester - Germany
Bullders, David Kochavi - Israel
Menhir Memory, Paolo Vivian - Italy
The Drift, Gwenael Stamm - France
Art and Nature Walk SurVive
On the 17th of June the art in nature symposium was opening the exhibition in the forest. This show will go on till the 1th of January 2010. Artist in this show:
Firman Djamil (Indonesië), Dimitrios Fotiou (GR), Bettino Francini (IT), Marian Meerbeek (NL), Nobuho Nagasawa (Japan), Thomas Neumaier (D), Stephanie Rhode (NL/D), Helen Schell (UK), Xavier Rijs (B). Patrick van Boekel (NL), Xavier Cortada (USA), Czeslaw Podlesny (P).