Non Nuoc stone sculptor fascinated Norway

Oyvin Storbaekken He was born in 1947, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Norwegian national, has over 20 years teaching at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts University in the capital, Oslo (Norway).

In a casually visiting Non Nuoc stone village (Da Nang) in 2001, he had the right idea of ​​setting up a project to train people here carvers raised international level. After much searching donors, May 3/2003, is the development cooperation agency Norway (Norad) funded the entire budget, new projects began operating with new equipment purchased from Italy, Germany and many carvers are employed. They are the youth of the village of Non Nuoc stone, creative, skilled stonecutter, however, because this is only a concept craft skills are not so high.

Initially, carvers trained three years of prototyping, replication objects, reporter statues, stone cutting techniques, equipments, instruments and both English sculptor. Languages ​​between him and students mainly gestures, eye contact, smile and sometimes a few slang words.

Plying statuary, worker training method of the Italian sculptor, he Oyvin Storbaekken made many works imbued Vietnamese soul in turn brought to Europe, Europeans are appreciated.

In 2004, 12 of the center carvers are going at the invitation of the Norwegian town Oyvin Tolga- Storbaekken his hometown. After six weeks working in Nord- Oesterdalen, they completed six granite statue by Innovation Norway and Hedmark county for processing.

Two years later, seven workers returned to Norway with 10 containers of red marble of Vietnam was manipulated documents from the center, in conjunction with the Norwegian granite, hard 2 months assembling a bridge beautiful crossing a small stream called "friendship Bridge Danang Tolga-", marking 35 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam-Norway.

Before that, from his initiative Oyvin Storbaekken, sculpture Camp Vietnam-Norway was held on the banks of the Han River east 31-year anniversary of the liberation of Danang city, bringing together many names in sculpture sector from Norway, Vietnam. After the project ended, 6/2009, Da Nang City People's Committee to allow the establishment Danang Sculpture Foundation a non-governmental, non-profit, activities for the development of culture and art sculptures etching of Danang in particular and Vietnam in general. Currently the main products of the fund sculpture is exported to countries such as Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada ...