Blacksmith Forum

Starting in the revolutionary year 1989, this world-famous demonstration of masters of the black craft Hefaiston became a more modest-sized event, known as the Blacksmith Forum. Upon this occasion renowned figures from the world of artistic blacksmith art are chosen and on display in the reconstructed castle smithy. The selected masters have a week in order to create a work of art according to their own design. For 20 years now, work has been created on a wide range of themes. The high quality of the craft-work as well as the aesthetics ensure a responsible choice amongst the top artists from throughout Europe. They view it as an honour to leave behind the definitive product of their completed work for the purposes of the collections in the castle. Visitors have the opportunity to observe blacksmith masters at work over the course of the final week in August. They can gain an acquaintance up close and personal with the traditional techniques, masterful skill and the physical demands which serve to gradually create an object in the hands of a blacksmith which will permanently enrich the spaces of Helfštýn.

Seznam plastik vykovaných při Kovářských Forech