The work is based on the larger statue of Ishvara III. In addition to the small scale of its prototype, the spiral of the body is mirror-inverted.

Ishvara III follows on from the older work Ishvara. Again, it is an ironic view of divinity, or rather the personification of the god of all gods. The pedestal – a cube forms the lower part of the entire work and represents matter – the earth. From the perspective of human life, the earth with its processes remains as if unchanging and constant. Man has grown from this matter and in his vanity tries to control, shape and transform it, tries to become a god. Man is born, lives, dies. Yet the earth figuratively remains in its place. From the perspective of human life, it appears unchanging. The statue – the figure, with its composition, connects the entire human body in a left-sided (self-)destructive spiral. Through the mutual cooperation of all parts, the body creates a kind of tetrahedron twisted into a spiral. The spiral is the axis of the composition of the figure (statue), manifests itself in almost all parts and symbolizes time (or a vain effort to go against time) and the essence of being. It depicts the passage of time during the course of human life.

photo: Miloš Šálek

Ishvara – a male figure, in ancient Indian philosophy The God of All Gods. With the sculpture, I opened up a “male” theme for myself (until then I had been depicting mainly female figures). A figural composition that shows a male figure, rising to the heavens, but at the same time striking his right hand symbolically into a steel base (the symbolism of the earth – iron). It remains up to the viewer whether he wants to perceive the motif as creation or destruction. The inspiration for the composition is both in the actual yoga position, but also in the work of William Blake (In the ancient days). The apparent purity of the forms refers in part to 19th-century classicism, but also to later work, especially in Germany in the 1930s-40s. A black version of the sculpture is also in preparation. However, everything should be taken with a certain degree of irony. I would like to realize the statue in larger-than-life-size sometime in the future.

photos: Ivan Pinkava