Sculpture Line
Prague 2017

1.6. — 30.9.2017

1. 6. - 30. 9. 2017

The open-air exhibition project Sculpture Line is a unique opportunity to present sculptures and art objects to both citizens and visitors of the Czech capital in an attractive setting. Prague itself provides the best exhibition place, be it frequented areas or less-expected locations, both in the centre and outskirts of the metropolis. Works of art by leading local & international artists interact directly with the city and invite you for a walk of discovery. The aim of the festival is to enrich the public space, offer a new view of the architectural context and, hopefully, become a new tradition.

We invite you to the streets where art awaits you. Join the Line, enjoy the Line!

Great Missionary

Great Missionary

Jaroslav Koléšek (*1974)

Franciscan Garden Jungmannovo náměstí, Praha 1
The Great Missionary is an expressive encounter of natural, human and technical space. In terms of form, it is a sculptural and stylized body of a helicopter with a flagellate and vividly moving tail, showing a bearer of information. The statue is a reference to missions, whether military or civil, aboutwhich we do not even know yet whether they bring a threat or rescue. The sculpture is also a place of both conflict and merge of the principles representing the origin and end of life - of their mutual interconnection. The active space of the sculpture is a land – the target, as the ancient origin, into which a human being, bringing enlivening, settlement, but also disturbance, is implanted. The sculpture can symbolize the forces that transform the living space and this is achieved mainly by internal tension based on the use of parallels and contrasts between technical and organic morphology.
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Rounded

Rounded

Jan Dostál (*1992)

Botanical Garden Prague Trojská 800/196, Praha 7 Troja
The sculpture is formulated from a primary round geometric shape, that’s why the name Rounded was chosen. A determining principle of the sculpture is the shape and actual dimension of a circle that appears not only in the resulting shape of the object, but also in its individual components. The sculpture is formed by joining individual parts (carved according to the radius identical to the radius of the resulting object) which form the resulting shape of a growing circle. The overall spatial composition of the work refers to principal mathematical shapes. The purely intuitive composition of individual parts, without using a model, is reflected in an unrestrained, growing and gradually formingwhole and this is an unfinished circle. Interruption of a central curve – or perhaps its controlled incompleteness – adds dynamics to the overall impression of the shape of the sculpture.
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Hyena

Hyena

Jan Dostál (*1992)

Dolní Břežany Pražská 636, Dolní Břežany
The author focused on the space and size of the object in space. A scale chosen for Hyena allows the viewer to perceive the object as a whole, and, at the same time, at a closer look the viewer is forcedto perceive individual segments and parts of the sculpture. Its openness offers insight into the interiorof the object. The sculpture tries to capture the ferocity of hyenas as accurately as possible with metal. An organic form of a living hyena is transferred into a geometric form of the sculpture while enlarging the animal’s proportions. Complex structures that create individual parts of the animal’s body are gradually composed of the 2D parts. The resulting sculpture takes advantage of the distribution of light and shade on metal surfaces, and using its nuances it creates the overall spatial volume.
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