Jakub Flejšar

Perception of space | My job as a sculptor is to work with a given space. I change the energy of that space - I spice it up, animate it, transform it, sometimes violently, sometimes subtly. It depends on my feelings and sensations. Inventing shape | My work is a conscious and unconscious play with material. Many times I surprise myself with what is happening in front of me, such a small birth under my own hands, without pain, without thinking as if by chance, at the same time every piece, the smallest piece has its exact place and could not be anywhere else. It's all up to my emotion and feeling. Feeling, timelessness | I don't want to convey any idea, any story, any actual issue. I don't want my work to evoke any emotion in you. Thinking is pigeonholing, comparing, sorting, solving, judging based on experience, i.e. the past. Emotions are overwhelming, paralyzing, lacking in subtlety, and also based on past experiences, conscious or unconscious. The author's task | My task is to make you forget yourself and time, at least for a split second. Don't think, don't speculate what the author meant by the work, don't judge or measure. Just perceive, feel and be, you will become the work, the sculpture, inwardly. A strange silence and peace will spread within you. It's up to you to feel and feel.

In my work I reflect on being, on man and his role in this world. Man, a would-be social being, used to not being alone ? We are alone in our being, alone in ourselves and with ourselves, alone with our world view, one optimistic, the other pessimistic, the same or similar in appearance, differentin opinion, together in the physical world but not meeting in the inner one..... This project was realized with the financial contribution of the Central Bohemian Region.

You may not know this, but Jakub Flejšar is a snowboarder and a snowboard coach, and they, as is well known, like to move and run and then also rest. And because Jakub is also a sculptor, he wants his sculptures to make that experience visible. In a stylized and humorous way.

The figure of a walking man with his arm extended forward is perhaps, as the name suggests, a governor, but also a warrior who fell into Hostivaře from another planet. It is assembled like a kit and reminds of sci-fi movies. It's made of metal frames, which confuses the sculptor's fans a bit, because otherwise he likes natural wooden materials.

In my work I reflect on being, on man and his role in this world. Man, a would-be social being, used to not being alone ? We are alone in our being, alone in ourselves and with ourselves, alone with our world view, one optimistic, the other pessimistic, the same or similar in appearance, differentin opinion, together in the physical world but not meeting in the inner one.....

You may not know this, but Jakub Flejšar is a snowboarder and a snowboard coach, and they, as is well known, like to move and run and then also rest. And because Jakub is also a sculptor, he wants his sculptures to make that experience visible. In a stylized and humorous way.

The figure of a walking man with his arm extended forward is perhaps, as the name suggests, a governor, but also a warrior who fell into Hostivaře from another planet. It is assembled like a kit and reminds of sci-fi movies. It's made of metal frames, which confuses the sculptor's fans a bit, because otherwise he likes natural wooden materials.

You may not know this, but Jakub Flejšar is a snowboarder and a snowboard coach, and they, as is well known, like to move and run and then also rest. And because Jakub is also a sculptor, he wants his sculptures to make that experience visible. In a stylized and humorous way.

The figure of a walking man with his arm extended forward is perhaps, as the name suggests, a governor, but also a warrior who fell into Hostivaře from another planet. It is assembled like a kit and reminds of sci-fi movies. It's made of metal frames, which confuses the sculptor's fans a bit, because otherwise he likes natural wooden materials.

In my work I reflect on being, on man and his role in this world. Man, a would-be social being, used to not being alone ? We are alone in our being, alone in ourselves and with ourselves, alone with our world view, one optimistic, the other pessimistic, the same or similar in appearance, differentin opinion, together in the physical world but not meeting in the inner one..... This project was realized with the financial contribution of the Central Bohemian Region.

The composition consists of individual, mutually separated parts of man - the human body. Due to all the hard work and exhaustion of what he experiences or has experienced, he falls apart physically and mentally. It doesn't matter if it's caused by one exhausting moment or a lifelong effort to achieve something.

My constant thinking about myself, about human being, about the individual and his position in the systém of humanity, his apparent importance, which is in fact insignificant and meaningless, led me to display human beings, individuals and their roles in the world. Actually, we are only empty, motionless cases standing (sitting) at the same place convinc ed of our uniqueness. All my sculptures, also this one, are often an abstract representation of the human emptiness unreasonably living in this world.

An attempt to portray a man in his essence - his elementary non-physical form - his loneliness, in the consequence of his invisibility to others, the unimportance to the world and system in which he lives. We are important only to ourselves, to others we are almost invisible...

In my work I think about existence, about man and his role in this world. Man, would-be social being, used to not being alone (that is why it is always more pleasant for us to watch groups of sculptural figures). But we are alone in our existence and ourselves. While sitting side by side, we are alone with our view of the world, one optimist, the other pessimist, the same or similar appearance, different opinion, in the physical world together - but in the inner world not meeting...

A sitting figure, stylized into lines and Cubist shapes, consisting of a structure of steel hollow sections which the author has been using in his work since 2002 (the series “Flood Tourists“, where the steel sections were complemented with fragments of driftwood). The sculpture nicely contrasts with the surrounding greenery and follows the geometric form of the background architecture.

The object enriches the Botanical Gardens with a certain industrial element which – thanks to the combination with natural material – gracefully harmonizes with the surroundings. The sitting figures, made of steel hollow sections, contain the fragments of trees from the Botanical Garden which wereknocked down by storm, and thus the sculptures are even more authentically linked to the place; the connection being also emphasized by an intense scent of pine logs.