Artist:
David Jiří
Title:
Klíčová Socha, Key Sculpture
Year:
2010
Adress:
Franz Kafka Square (contemporary)
www.waymarking.com:
The Key Sculpture (Klícová socha) represents a personal polemic on development within the Czech Republic in the last 20 years. Of course, it's neither a celebratory monument nor simply a critical piece. The sculpture expresses the ambivalence I feel when I look at present-day society and politics..." (Jirí David, artist)
www.praguemylove.blogspot.nl:
The sculpture symbolizes the 20 years that have passed since the Velvet Revolution. Keys were picked as the main theme because jangling keys were the symbol of pro-democratic rallies, organized by Vaclav Havel, in 1989. The sculpture spells the word"Revoluce" (Revolution). There has been some controversy regarding Jirí David's key sculpture because the work was sponsored by Vodaphone, an international telecommunications company - money from an international company for a national symbol raised some questions in the Czech Republic.
The artist, Jirí David, is the most influential Czech artist of the last 20 years. With their free use of signs and political symbols, his paintings distinctly shaped the post-modern program at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s when he also began working with installations and written texts reflecting the position of the artist and art in society.
www.360cities.net:
The Key Sculpture is in the shape of the word"Revoluce" (Revolution) in a DNA spiral that evkoes incessant rebirth, revolution in evolution and its reverse. The individual letters represents fonts from the names of well-known items from before 1989: R - from the Communist daily Red Right; E - from toiltet paper; V - from cotton wool; O - from"Pedro" chewing gum; L - from the TV commercials of Mr.Egg; U - from Tuzex shop vouchers for imported goods; C - from travel agency logo; E - from Communist ID cards.
Mobile operator Vodafone supported the sculpture through a public key collection. For the occasion of the November 17, 1986 anniversary, people brought in 85741 keys to Vodafone shops, from whisch the sculpture was created.
The Key Sculpture (Klícová socha) represents a personal polemic on development within the Czech Republic in the last 20 years. Of course, it's neither a celebratory monument nor simply a critical piece. The sculpture expresses the ambivalence I feel when I look at present-day society and politics..." (Jirí David, artist)
www.praguemylove.blogspot.nl:
The sculpture symbolizes the 20 years that have passed since the Velvet Revolution. Keys were picked as the main theme because jangling keys were the symbol of pro-democratic rallies, organized by Vaclav Havel, in 1989. The sculpture spells the word"Revoluce" (Revolution). There has been some controversy regarding Jirí David's key sculpture because the work was sponsored by Vodaphone, an international telecommunications company - money from an international company for a national symbol raised some questions in the Czech Republic.
The artist, Jirí David, is the most influential Czech artist of the last 20 years. With their free use of signs and political symbols, his paintings distinctly shaped the post-modern program at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s when he also began working with installations and written texts reflecting the position of the artist and art in society.
www.360cities.net:
The Key Sculpture is in the shape of the word"Revoluce" (Revolution) in a DNA spiral that evkoes incessant rebirth, revolution in evolution and its reverse. The individual letters represents fonts from the names of well-known items from before 1989: R - from the Communist daily Red Right; E - from toiltet paper; V - from cotton wool; O - from"Pedro" chewing gum; L - from the TV commercials of Mr.Egg; U - from Tuzex shop vouchers for imported goods; C - from travel agency logo; E - from Communist ID cards.
Mobile operator Vodafone supported the sculpture through a public key collection. For the occasion of the November 17, 1986 anniversary, people brought in 85741 keys to Vodafone shops, from whisch the sculpture was created.