EVA, 2024

EVA, 2024

patinated bronze, stainless steel, granite

height 2 m, pedestal ellipse - height 35 cm

investor: Rehabilitation center Čeladná s. r. o.

place of implementation: the premises of the Rehabilitation Center Čeladná

The statue was unveiled on May 1, 2024 at 10:10 am

The statue is based on the plastic original of the EVA statue that served as a co-by model for this statue. The sculpture is prefigured by the earlier sculpture “Humility” and “Virtue of Virtues”. Like these two sculptures, the EVA sculpture is inspired by the yoga posture Gomukha Asana (cow position), sometimes referred to as the “woman’s pose” because of the exercise that not only symbolizes a woman, but is also a pose – an exercise that has a significant effect on the female organs. In yogic and ancient Hindu philosophy, the cow has a sacred meaning, but it can also figuratively symbolize purely feminine principles and especially motherhood and the related concept of a higher form of love. The theme or symbolism of the biblical Eve stems from this issue. Eve as the progenitor of mankind, who was not born of a woman (the statue does not even have a navel).In humility she accepts with outstretched arms the predestination of the inevitable fate of one of her offspring and, figuratively, of all mankind. She hovers as if above the ground, using a hidden point of contact on the calf of her left leg to create a shadow under her body, and to ensure stability she lightly touches the ground with the little toes of both feet, from which she is essentially born through a man. 

 

The sculpture is anchored by stainless steel pins to a stone base. The base is made of light granite (Silesian granite) in the shape of a half-ellipsoid. The upper side of the ellipsoid is polished, the bowl-shaped elliptical form is roughly worked (pummelled) around the perimeter. The base is anchored to a concrete foundation.

Ensuring implementation:

Casting of the statue: H V H spol. s r.o. Art Foundry, Horní Kalná

Manufacture of pedestals and stonework: Vítězslav Orel Masonry

EVA, 2024

Statue Of Věra Špinarová

Statue of Věra Špinarová, 2018

Patinated bronze
pedestal: lower cylindrical part of the plinth made of concrete,

stone – granite slabs above – larger slab (diameter 1858 mm) black polished granite,

central slab (diameter 800 mm) made of red polished granite with inlaid inscription “VĚRA ŠPINAROVÁ”.
Anchoring to a reinforced concrete foundation.

Life size

Husův sad, Moravská Ostrava and Přívoz, private investor

Ensuring implementation:

Casting of the statue: Jiří Sovinec

Project documentation and cooperation on integration and composition: Ing. arch. Pavel Malina

Manufacture of pedestals and stonework: Vítězslav Orel Masonry

Photos: Martin Popelář and Lukáš Kaboň

Karel Kryl Memorial

Karel Kryl Memorial, 2018

The work consists of two parts:

• standing figure of Karel Kryl – patinated bronze, height 87 cm

• statue pedestal in the form of a column – height 220 cm, polished surface. In the upper part, the column is completed with an inscription (sandblasted)

The entire work is placed on the sidewalk in front of the historic building of the Czech Radio Ostrava on the street Dr. Šmerala. The work was unveiled on 6/27/2018.

Private investor

Architectural solution: Ing. arch. Pavel Malina
Implementation – pedestal: BcA. Vratislav Černý

The Statue Of Leoš Janáček

The Statue of Leoš Janáček, 2017

bronze, pedestal of black granite

figure life size, pedestal - hexagonal base - width 415 mm

Jirásek Square, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Investor: Statutory city of Ostrava, municipal district of Moravská Ostrava and Přívoz

photos: Jan Král and author’s archive

Ensuring implementation:

Casting of the statue: Jiří Sovinec

Project documentation and cooperation on integration and composition: Ing. arch. Pavel Malina

Manufacture of pedestals and stonework: Vítězslav Orel Masonry