Botanical Garden Prague
Jakub Flejšar
Studied at Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague. Besides the art of sculptures, Jakub is active in snowboarding – snowboardcross. He is a head couch of Czech junior snowboardcross national team and also of Eva Samková, the Winter Olympics winner (Sochi 2014). He himself is a former national team member and also a vice-champion of the Czech Republic.
Sitting figures
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 were
knocked 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.