During the nine symposiums between 1964 and 2014 thirty-six sculptures, created by the same number of artists (among them nine Slovenians, five Japanese, three British, Germans, Croatians and Italians, two Americans and a Jugoslav, a Pole, a Macedonian, an Austrian, a Dane, an Irishman and a Canadian), were incorporated into the visual image of the central town of this valley on the river Meža.

Production in the renovated and enlarged ironworks of Mežiška dolina Valley (Meža Valley) was flourishing in the first half of the 1960s. The fast-growing town of Ravne na Koroškem was developing in parallel. High quality steel was a material with a symbolic significance in the industrial era. That is why it was no coincidence that the idea which had been brought to Ravne by Franc Fale, a future director of the ironworks, after his coincidental meeting with the representatives of Forma Viva in Ljubljana, was so well accepted. But while in Kostanjevica and Portorož the great art works enriched a sculpture gallery in the surroundings of a picturesque Cistercian monastery or a small piece of the Adriatic coast in Seča, respectively, the concept in Ravne was different. In the 1960s new residential areas were being built. So the sculptors were creating their works of art for the urban settings determined in advance, among the blocks of flats in the Čečovje workers' residential area, and later on selected locations of the wider town's surroundings. The original concept was to erect the sculptures at carefully selected points of town where they would, a singular attraction and encompassing cityscapes, determine the basis for the urban planning.

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