Michal Gabriel
Sculptor and university teacher, ex-dean of Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno (University of Technology). Graduated from SUPŠ and AVU in Prague, in 1987 co-established the famous informal art group Tvrdohlaví. Since 1998, Michal has been working as senior lecturer at Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and teaches at UMPRUM in Prague. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Jindřich Chalupecký award. In 2009, Michal was appointed a professor.
Bath
From the moment I saw the ancient ceramic bathtubs in Crete that served for bathing but also as a funeral sarcophagi, I started to thing about a figure lying in the bathtub. The sculpture of the woman lying in the bathtub was made in 2014. I immediately developed it into another scuplture „Bath in the dark“. The bathtub is full of illusive black water in which a woman figure is bathing. The sculpture makes sense on the water surface. A bathtub floats above the water like a boat flying though the air with the naked lying woman.
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