March 2005 - Mexico

From the 3rd to the 13th of March 2005, an international symposium of sculptures on stainless steel, promoted by A.I.E.S.M., with the support of the Mexican Institute of Culture, took place in Tultepec, in the suburb of Mexico city ,
The symposium, organized by the Mexican sculptor Miguel Hernandez Urban, deputy president of A.I.E.S.M. and financed by Conaculta, Prominox, Juan Autrique and Fernandez Coacalco, distributor of the beer Corona, reached this year its 14 edition.
These were the invited artists: Luis Miguel Valdes – Cuba, Franz Spath - Germany, Eduardo Waxemberg - Argentina, Ted Carrasco - Bolivia, Paco Di Ribes- Brazil, Roger Lapalme - Canada, Edgar Zuñiga - Costa Rica, Ante Marinovich - Croazia, Tomás Lara - Cuba, Jesús Cobo - Ecuador, Alber De Matteis - France, Pal Kepenyes - Hungary, Michael Lyons - England, Mauro Bettino Francini - Italy, Diana Manni - Italy, Siyoruki Okumara - Japan, Miguel Hernandez Urbán - Mexico, Abel Ramírez Aguilar - Mexico, Ernesto Mallard - Mexico, Pedro Martínez Osorio - Mexico, Jorge de Santiago - Mexico, Moisés Cabrerà - Mexico, Jesús Rosas - Mexico, Rafael Villar - Mexico, Ruy Lohengrin Gabriel Téllez - Mexico, Hanna Jubran - U.S.A, Jack Winer - U.S.A., Rossi Ramon Morales - Venezuela.
Each invited artist realized during the symposium a monumental sculpture on stainless steel.
At the end of the symposium the sculptures were exposed at the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City and after in the Municipality of Tlanepantla, Estado de México, where on the 3rd of June the exhibition was inaugurated by the Mayor.