Sculptures
on the Wenceslas square
Sep 12 - Oct 10, 2018
2017
About
VáclavART = Václavák (Czech familiar expression for Wenceslas Square) + ART = VáclavART
is an artistic project and exhibition organized with the aim to introduce new art into the public space, revitalize it, provoke and bring new impulses into the discussion about the future appearance of Wenceslas Square.
VáclavART wants to encourage young, beginner artists, to give them the opportunity to present their work and talents and to help them in their artistic career. The first year of the exhibition presents 19 sculptural works from 9 young artists, created in the sculpture studio of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts led by Mr. Lukáš Rittstein.
Thus, Wenceslas Square will be filled with statues for four weeks (from September 12 to October 10, 2017). The main part of the exhibition will be in the central strip in the upper half of the square, some sculptures will be also installed in the fashion house VAN GRAAF.
The patronage of the project was received by Mrs. Eva Špačková, Councilor for Education and Associations at the City District of Prague 1.
Exhibition is organized by the Association of the New Town of Prague and was realized with the support of the City District of Prague 1.
Organiser
The Association of the New Town of Prague
The Association of the New Town of Prague was founded 12 years ago (2005). The Association wants to cultivate and develop Wenceslas Square as a key public space of our country. It takes care about this place and at the same time exerts pressure on the state administration and local municipal authorities to take care of it as well. The members of the association want Wenceslas Square to be a place where residents and visitors of Prague want and like to spend their time. A place both inspiring and dignified, one we can all be proud of.
Patron of the exhibition
„The story, the vision, the idea that gets the physical dimension is a kind of miracle. The means of expression are evolving. New technologies, conceptual art, … enrich creations. But the statue itself is still irreplaceable because a passion for the mass and material cannot disappear in people… Wenceslas Square is a kind of „arena of reality“. This place will quickly show what pieces of art can endure, live without explanations and enrich the environment. This incredibly important experience is also an exceptional opportunity for young sculptors to present themselves to the general public,“ says Lukáš Rittstein, head of the sculptural studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, about the exhibition and his students.
Lukáš Rittstein
(1973) is a Czech sculptor characterized by both abstract and realistic biomorphic sculptures. Rittstein’s sculptural work is permeated by the phenomenon of dialogue between various sculptural approaches and materials. Travels to Papua New Guinea with the painter and photographer Barbora Šlapetová in 1997-2008 had a great influence on Rittstein’s work. For his work he was awarded by the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (1999) for young talented artists and the Magnesia litera Award (2005) for his book he wrote together with Barbora Šlapetová Why the Night is So Black.
Authors
Nikola Emma Ryšavá
(*1990, Praha)
A young, beginner artist is looking for expressive means and topics interesting to him. In his artwork he imprints his inner world, feelings of introvert to society.
Radek studied ceramics and porcelain processing at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and then continued with the field of stone-making. He is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In the future, he plans to study in Milena Dopitova’s Intermedia Studio. He is attracted by the work with various media, the development of personal style and its improvement. He wants to develop the themes of the individual and society in his work. He has long been interested in the inner life of people by their personality.
Radek Směták
(*1993 Zlín)
A young, beginner artist is looking for expressive means and topics interesting to him. In his artwork he imprints his inner world, feelings of introvert to society.
Radek studied ceramics and porcelain processing at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and then continued with the field of stone-making. He is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In the future, he plans to study in Milena Dopitova’s Intermedia Studio. He is attracted by the work with various media, the development of personal style and its improvement. He wants to develop the themes of the individual and society in his work. He has long been interested in the inner life of people by their personality.
Anna Krninská
(*1996, Jindřichův Hradec)
Anna focuses primarily on moving figures in her work.
She graduated in the field of stone carvings (Secondary School of Fine Arts in Český Krumlov) and now she is in the sculpture studio of Lukáš Rittstein at the Academy of Fine Arts In Prague for the second year.
Anna is a co-organizer of the Badespasstotal Symposium in Czech Canada region, where she exhibits some of her work each year.
Within the VávlavART exhibition she presents two sculptures, one of which is a study of an act transformed in her favourite style – punk (2017), and the second, the shovels (2016) that play a scene where two bosses (big shovels) bully small shovels with lower status.
Andrea Lédlová
(*1990 Havlíčkův Brod)
Andrea graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Jiří Petrbok. She has an internship in the sculpture studio of Lukáš Rittstein during the fifth year of her studies, which influenced her greatly. Her statue „The Biggest Monster“ which is exhibited on Wenceslas Square was created during this internship.
She works in a variety of media, using a group of 33 monsters created a few years ago. Andrea displays them in different installations or converts them from media to media (drawings, paintings, photographs …).
On the internship in the sculptural studio she tried to model one of the monsters for several times, of which the last one is the biggest one, it has three meters. Unlike the smaller statues, this one is no longer standing on the pedestal, so it is more realistic. It is cast into laminate, which is considered as temporary material. Andrea is currently trying to find a sponsor to cast it into adequate material (iron, concrete).
Jindřiška Jabůrková
(*1995 Zlín)
In her work, she deals mainly with the inner experiences of people, death and birth, or the relations of people with nature.
Jindřiška graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště (field of stone-making). She is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the sculpture studio of Lukáš Rittstein.
For this exhibition, she has prepared a figure representing a native man, a shaman woman.
Radek Mrština
(*1990 Pardubice)
Author exploring the possibilities and boundaries of „materializing“ stories in sculptural forms and installations. He finds an inspiration for his works in film, literature, philosophy, scenography, staged photography, but also in painting or classical animation. In his point of view the story is one of the most important and powerful aspect that defines not only ourselves but also the world around us.
At work, Radek uses all approaches, not only drawing and modeling, but also film storyboards with scenes, where he gradually grabs the future appearance of the work. He is literally „the director“ of his sculpture.
Currently a student of the Academy of Fine Arts – Lukáš Rittstein’s sculpture studio.
Michal Čeloud Šembera
(*1987 Brno)
His work is technically characterized by purity and diligence. Philosophically it is about the need to grasp the time as a medium, about the understanding of its reason and direction of flow; to embody something that we each perceive in a different way and to allow it to tell us about itself.
Michal says he’s a ceramicst all his life, but the sculptor’s heart has always beaten in his chest.
He graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Ceramics in Bechyně – art processing of ceramics and porcelain, blacksmithing in Cheb, he also studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague – an internship in the painting studio, and currently attends the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The school is his hobby now, because he works as a master in a ceramic workshop in Prague and as a designer (Ceramics Designer) and model maker in the USA.
In 2016, he was nominated for the Josef Hlávka Foundation prize / art category.
Linda Páleníková
(*1989 Nový Jičín)
Linda doesn’t create sculptures but she enjoys a free transition between the forms of human and animal bodies. The horse’s sculpture is hidden in the body of a male figure, or vice versa, the man is pulled out through a horse’s bust. Addressing human and animal differences is a significant building block of her work.
Aneta Filipová
(*1991 Hradec Králové)
Aneta is a student of the fourth year of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. When she first started at the Academy, at Monument studio led by Jiří Příhoda, she dealt with wide-format monochrome canvases, in which she captured the architecture of the towns by painting. At the same time, she had an internship in sculpture studio under the guidance of Tomáš Vejdovský, where she learned the basics of sculpture craft and developed the theme of „architecture“ in the sculptural concept. She created a cycle of polygonal sculptures, combating against austere symmetry and PC processing of 3D printers.
After that internship, she moved to the sculpture studio of Lukáš Rittstein, here she deals with the objective of „overlap“ in sculpture processing. Thus, the statue of Lady Eagle – Transgression was created.
Among her favorite materials are colored laminate and materials supporting the concept of statues like a tire and iron.
LOCATION OF THE SCULPTURES ON WENCESLAS SQUARE
1a) Michal Č. Šembera / The Stoptime / pryskyřice, ocel / resin, steel / 2017
1b) Michal Č. Šembera / The Stoptime / pryskyřice, ocel / resin, steel / 2017
2a, 2b, 2c) Linda Páleníková / Koně / The Horses / polyester / 2017
3) Andrea Lédlová / Největší příšera / The Biggest Monster / polyester / 2016
4) Jindřiška Jabůrková / Šamanka / Shaman Woman / polyester / 2017
5a) Anna Krninská / Punkerka / Punk / beton / concrete / 2017
5b) Anna Krninská / Lopaty / The Shovels / dřevo, polyester / wood, polyester / 2016
6a,b) Nikola Emma Ryšavá / Vysocí cizí neznámí / Tall Dark Strangers / beton, kov a textil / concrete, metal, textiles / 2017
7) Aneta Filipová / Transgrese-Orlice / Transgression-Lady Eagle / železo, pneumatiky, akryl / iron, tires, acrylic / 2017
8) Radek Směták / Růst zevnitř / Grow from The Inside / omítka / plaster / 2017
9) Aneta Filipová / Transformace / Tranformance / polyester, autolak / polyester, car varnish / 2017
FASHION STORE VAN GRAAF
10) Aneta Filipová / Busta psa / Bust of Dog / sádra / plaster, 2015 – shopping window
11) Aneta Filipová / Možnosti geometrie / Geometry Options / sádra / plaster / 2016 – shopping window
12) Nikola Emma Ryšavá / Spojení / Connections / textil, laminát, dřevo / textiles, fiberglass, wood / 2017 – ground floor by the entrance
13) Nikola Emma Ryšavá / Sami spolu / Alone Together / laminát, epoxid, textil / fiberglass, epoxy, textile / 2017 – ground floor by the entrance
14) Nikola Emma Ryšavá /Blíže / Closer / laminát, epoxid, textil, kov / fiberglass, epoxy, textile, metal / 2017 – 1st floor – women’s fashion, evening dresses
15) Radek Mrština / Kreatura / The Creature / polyester, kov, pigment / polyester, metal, pigment / 2016 – 3rd floor – men’s fashion, suits
VAN GRAAF, Wenceslas Square 17, open daily 10am – 9pm
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