European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calendar Belgium International air show Zechiel aug. 3. Bulgaria sin National meeting of Folk groups Varna aug. 13-17. International folklore festival Black sea coast bit half August. Denmark plaice festival Frederiks Havn aug. 2-10. Finland sea festival Kolka july 31-Ang. 3. Children s festival Hameen Linna aug. 1-3. City Marathon Helsinki aug. 2. Germany 11th old town festival Koblenz aug. 1-3. Chess festival Baden Baden aug. 1-9. Backol Schest Kitsch aug. 2-10, Viking festival Schleswig aug. 2-3. Rhine in flames Between Braubach and Koblenz aug. 9. The romantic illumination will culminate in a fireworks display against the backdrop of fort  at Koblenz about 7 . Program tickets and accommodations from  Rheinland Pfalz Postrach 1420, 0-s4m Koblenz. Tel. 0261-31079. Gallery Austria Trauten Fels the colourful world of insects at the Castle until aug. 31. Denmark Copenhagen artist craftsman s fair Frue plans August Finland Helsinki retrospective Marim Ekko textiles and dress of the past 35 years. Museum of arts and Craft through August Germany Berlin Modem american printmaking Amenta Haus aug. 4-Sepl is. The t9 artists represented will include Walter Askin Audrey Flack Betty Hahn Luis Jimenez and Fritz Schonder. Great Britain London craftsmen from the Royal Moulton firm will demonstrate their work at Lawless in Regent Street until aug. 2. London Riyadh yesterday and today Olympia exhibition Center until aug. 10. The exhibition covers 6,000 years of saudi arabian history. Lon Don the work of Cecil Beaton barbican Center extended through aug. 10. Italy Venice futurism Palazzo Grassi until oct. 12. The newly restored gallery will open with the show ranging from Early futurism in the 1920s and will examine the relation Between futurism and Avant Garde. Cubism and other movements. The Netherlands Amsterdam French graphics  until sept. 9. Switzerland Basel new Glass for Japan and America museum of applied an until aug. 31. 12 in Eia Faz re /ur/3t, Impi great Britain Inverkeithing Highland games Inverkeithing aug. 3. Caol Highland games Caol aug. 2, Aberlour and strathspey Highland games Alice Littler memorial Park Aberlour aug. 2. 35th National town crier championship Warrior Square gardens Hasting aug. I. Exeter air 66, Exeter Airport aug. 2-3. Home counties Parachute championships 1986, British sky sports Parachute Center Bridlington aerodrome Brt Dungeon aug. 2-3. Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales Fishguard aug.-�. Military show and frying display Duff oct Airfield Duxford aug. 3. London Riding horse Parade Rotten Row Hyde Park London aug. 3. Summer in the City Barb Tan Center family festival London aug. 3-10. British Craft week Parish had old town Stratford upon Avon aug. 4-9. The scottish alternative games incorporating the world gird n Cleek championships Parton near cattle Douglas aug. 5. Great British Beer festival Metropole exhibition Center King s Road Brighton aug. 5-9. English National sheepdog trials Bednall Cha Hlll aug. 7-9. Hungary f1cc rally Budapest to Debrecen aug. 1-10. Ireland horse show Dublin aug. S-9. Principal sporting and social event of the year attracting visitors from All Over the world Italy Village festival Ehrenburg aug. 1-3. Joust of the Quintana Ascoli Piceno aug. 3. Historical pageant with More than 1,000 people in 15th-Century costume. The Netherlands Delta Flora newer exhibition Ste Lendam july 29 aug. 2. Information from Delta Flora . Box 2, my 3240 a Middel Halls the Netherlands. Norway Gim Temesgen 1986 traditional Market Kirbt Vansand aug. -17. Switzerland Folk festivals Kane Lersten and Leuker bad aug. 3. Turkey Celebration of mass honouring the Virgin Mary near Ephesius aug. S. The mass is celebrate tin the House in which Mary is said to have spent her last Days. Yugoslavia Lipica night la plea aug. 2. Pompidou Center hosts sculpture exhibit by Ofchar Benson new York times it is Likely to be a Good while before we see another sculpture show As ambitious and revealing As que esl be que la sculpture to Dement the Centre Georges Pompidou in  through oct. 13. It is Large it spans the tint 70 years of the Century and it brings together a remarkable number of seminal works by Constantin Brancusi Pablo Picasso Julio Gonzalez Alberto a iacometto David Smith Joseph buys and others. This is a landmark exhibition for Paris which has not had a major International sculpture show in the postwar Era. It comes at a time when sculpture is very much in the Public Eye. In an attempt to encourage artistic creativity and to commemorate its cultural achievements the present French administration initiated a program of sculpture commissions that has been marked by the boundless Energy of the Jack Lang the former French minister of culture an extraordinary array of sculptures has been popping up in the Public spaces of Paris by artists As different As Cesar pol Bury Annan Sandra Chia Alain Kiili and Daniel Buren. What is Modem sculpture was organized by Margit Rowell a curator at the Pompidou Center and the director of exhibitions at the Miro museum in Barcelona Spain. The exhibition is not a Panorama to is an attempt to distinguish Modem sculpture from previous sculpture. Although Rowell presents her position with total conviction she is also aware that her perspective May be As much of a historical document As any of the work she sets out to situate and explore. It is this modernist Point of View not 20th-Century sculpture that the exhibition puts in trial. Rowel believes that Modem sculpture is separated from the sculpture before it by being Anil descriptive and anti narrative. It does not Tell a Story it is not based on visual perception. Ii is she says marked by a shift from perceptual to conceptual. She also states that Modem sculpture is based on rupture rather than continuity. Furthermore unlike 19th-Century French sculpture where artists were bound by commissions Academy the authority in Modem sculpture is the artist. As a result. Pompidou Center Modem sculpture is More spontaneous than previous sculpture. Modem sculpture does not serve any function. It is she says  the most provocative aspect of Kowell i thesis is her belief that Modem sculpture follows one of two directions. On one Side is an aesthetic of  by this she Means an approach that is essentially analytical and theoretical. It is usually accompanied by a belief in reason and science. On the aesthetic of culture Side the exhibition places cubist constructions. Futurism russian constructivism de Slijk formalism and minimalism. On the other Side is an aesthetic of nature which values empathy Over abstraction and finds the Rule of science and reason limited if not dangerous. On this Side the exhibition places German expressionism Brancusi Giacometti Henry Moore surrealist objects David Smith buys Eva Hesse and arte Provera. Both approaches Are presented As a historical. The aesthetic of culture Points toward a future from which the past will be eradicated and the world will begin again. The artists who follow the aesthetic of nature journey Back into myth nature and the human psyche searching for essential human forms and truths. The one artist who clearly belongs to both sides is Picasso. It 1, Picasso Rowell has said who represents the entire 20th