Kristek House

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Kristek House
The "Kristek House" in Brno

The "Kristek House" in Brno

Data
place Tišnovská 77, Brno
Coordinates 49 ° 12 '37 .2 "  N , 16 ° 37' 31.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '37 .2 "  N , 16 ° 37' 31.1"  E

The Kristek House , in Czech Kristkův dům , is a building designed by the painter, sculptor, and action artist Lubo Kristek . It is located on the corner of Tišnovská and Trávníky streets in Brno ( Czech Republic ).

history

Kristek lived on Tišnovská Street in Brno when he was a child. In 2015 he returned there as part of his artistic work and created the sculpture cycle called " Sisyphus or rocks in the course of time " at this very place.

The work was inspired by the essay: " The Myth of Sisyphus " by the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus . The ideas of the actor George Voskovec also had a special influence . Kristek met Voskovec in the 1970s during his exhibition tour in the USA.

background

Detail: "The Sisyphus Time Machine".

Voskovec's ideas, which are recorded on the long-playing record " Relativně vzato (Relatively seen)", focus on Sisyphus' way downhill when he is freed from "his" stone after the work is done. Kristek adds the time aspect to this view. Sisyphus circles here on the minute hand of a clock. On his way to the summit he tries to slow down the time for us humans. On the other hand, on his way downhill, Sisyphus meets his dream woman every quarter of an hour.

The clockwork was specially designed and built for this purpose by a company specializing in tower clocks from Vyškov . The system shows the exact time and includes a change to winter time.

Here Kristek adapts his symbol of life, the "sky highway". The motif of the Himmelsautobahn appears for the first time in a painting from 1974, which is now part of the collection of the New City Museum in Landsberg am Lech . Kristek puts a train on the sky highway. This train is a childhood memory. The so-called Tišnovka , the former railway line from Brno to Tišnov , ran right behind the house when Kristek lived there. Here Kristek would like to link the secular, cyclical course of time (Sisyphus time machine) with infinity (celestial highway).

Hands protrude from one corner of the house, their fingers like roots reaching towards the sky. The hands also protect the main symbol of the assemblage - a living tree. In doing so, the author draws attention to nature and how humans deal with it.

The Kristek House is the setting for the films Ab ovo and Sisyphiade .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Czech Tourism: Surrealistický dum Luba Kristka v Brne. In: kudyznudy.cz. January 6, 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b Miroslav Homola: Kristkuv Sisyfos si užívá na stěne domu každou hodinu ve čtvrt. In: Novinky.cz. December 5, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018 (Czech).
  3. ↑ Barbora Půtová: Kristek's sculpture gallery in Thayatal . VÚKU, Brno 2013, ISBN 978-80-905548-1-8 ( online [PDF]).
  4. ^ Czech television: Dum performera Kristka bude dějištěm filmu. In: Ceskatelevize.cz. December 6, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018 (Czech).