Michal Gabriel

Two separate statues "Deer" and "With Dog" have joined together between the buildings of the National Theatre to form a new story named after the Roman goddess of hunting "Diana". But the name is not essential and it is up to the people who pass by how they interpret the meeting of the two statues in the context of the theatre space. Again, the structure on the surface of the statues plays an important role here. It connects the two sculptures formally, obscuring their realistic details and leaving it up to everyone to subconsciously place them in the sculptures.

The blue figures of the explorers are again gently floating above the water surface, this time in Hradec Králové. Sometimes I get asked about the colour of these statues. This blue colour has the trade name pool blue, the colour of swimming pools, but also the colour of the sky. Recently I realized that it is also the color of information signs along highways. I discovered its unintense contrast in the landscape once myself, through a small sculpture. The light blue sculpture pulled the color of the sky to the ground at the time, and so I had several of my other sculptures pull the blue color of the sky to the ground. And among them are the more simple blue explorers.

The sculpture was created by joining two sculptures created in previous years. Six male figures with outstretched arms completed the full sculpture of five sharks. Two different worlds combined into unreal story of humans and animals are linked by the formal contrast of vertical of the male figures and the horizontality of the swimming sharks. The combination of sharks and male characters in the park, a community is created that relies on fantasy and playfulness of park visitors and which, despite its unrealistic and varying interpretations open to different interpretations and interpretations of the story, its shapes and materials are quite natural and naturally.  

The rider is the fourth sculpture of the four-piece horse sculpture. It was created between 2010 and 2013. One cast with a smooth surface in a red polyester resin is in Kampa Museum, another one with the whole statue is in a private collection and is part of the golf areal near Brno. Bronze část with smooth surface is part of Kamenný dvůr area. I cast the Rider and the whole sculpture into peanut shells structure and also in the structure of walnut shells. The rider from the peanut shells is made also from bronze.

It is the third horse from the sculpture called Rider. I finished the whole sculpture in fibreglass castings a few years ago. It consists of three horse statues and one horse with a rider. In order to be able to exhibit the sculpture in the exterior, I gradually began to cast the statues in bronze. During that time I have exhibited the statues separately. I hope to see it once exhibited as a whole, for example in one of the Czech towns, possibly as part of the Sculpture Line festival.

The rider is the fourth sculpture of the four-piece horse sculpture. It was created between 2010 and 2013. One cast with a smooth surface in a red polyester resin is in Kampa Museum, another one with the whole statue is in a private collection and is part of the golf areal near Brno. Bronze část with smooth surface is part of Kamenný dvůr area. I cast the Rider and the whole sculpture into peanut shells structure and also in the structure of walnut shells. The rider from the peanut shells is made also from bronze.

It is the third horse from the sculpture called Rider. I finished the whole sculpture in fibreglass castings a few years ago. It consists of three horse statues and one horse with a rider. In order to be able to exhibit the sculpture in the exterior, I gradually began to cast the statues in bronze. During that time I have exhibited the statues separately. I hope to see it once exhibited as a whole, for example in one of the Czech towns, possibly as part of the Sculpture Line festival.

It is the third horse from the sculpture called Rider. I finished the whole sculpture in fibreglass castings a few years ago. It consists of three horse statues and one horse with a rider. In order to be able to exhibit the sculpture in the exterior, I gradually began to cast the statues in bronze. During that time I have exhibited the statues separately. I hope to see it once exhibited as a whole, for example in one of the Czech towns, possibly as part of the Sculpture Line festival. 

The statues of the Explorers originated as a spatial drawing captured by strokes of aluminium hoses gradually fixed into the final shape by a modelling epoxy resin. Each of the three figures is in a different phase of movement; together they form a dynamic whole. They make an illusion of walking on water, exploring the space between the Functionalist Manes building and Neo Renaissance National Theatre. Their reflection on the river surface moves the installation to a higher level in comparison with conventional, “static” presentation in the gallery.