The Sculpture Symposium in Quebec City took place in 1966, at Battlefields Park near the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec. It received support from the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec. Gilles Hénault, then director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, organized the event and invited a group of artists known as Un autre groupe des sept (another group of seven) — Pierre-Paul Bertin (France), André Condé (Switzerland), Pierre Heyvaert (Canada), Jacques Huet (Canada), Luichy Martinez (Saint-Domingue), Fumio Otani (Japan) and Philippe Scrive (France) — to create pieces using wood as the primary material. The sculptures created during the symposium were put under the surveillance and protection of the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, but belonged to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Unfortunately, due to lack of maintenance, they no longer exist today. This international symposium was the subject of a short film called Une foret de symbols (1971), a 23m 50s film directed by Louis Daviault and Guy Robert (Office du film du Quebec).
Reference: Serge Fisette, Symposiums de sculpture au Québec 1964-1997, Montreal, Centre de Diffusion 3D, 1997, p. 36-38.
