Buddha Rider Dresden 2022

The statue does not express the story of Buddha's life. The Buddha is a symbol of meditation.

The figure rides through the landscape connected to the legs of the animal he discovers in himself. He becomes one with it and allows himself to be carried away. By materializing the notion of "meditation through movement" into a bronze sculpture, he transforms his immediate surroundings into a space in which viewers can participate in a shared ride and be taken out of the certainties of the rational world.

The sculpture was created over several years in relation to other works. The structure that covers most of the sculpture is made of walnut shells. The sculpture was created between 2017-2021. It is based on a series of previous sculptures where stretched limbs are a dominant feature.

For example - Thirteen players carved into oak trunks so that their arms are extended and touch the ground in the form of straight trunks or thick sticks. They are stretched to stabilize the sculpture, freeing the legs from the necessary plinth. For someone, they can be roots , a playing bat or a weapon. The hands with fingers, which are an attribute of work and rationality, are absent, they are just limbs used for movement or stability.

In another form, the limbs turn into outstretched, writhing tentacles. It is a sculpture group of three explorers. Strange cosmic figures wandering merrily...

In the sculptures of the three dancers, arms and legs are linked in closed drawing loops suggesting the elongated movement of dancers or warriors circling through space in a controlled motion. The movement is not incomprehensibly jumbled, but has an internal structure.

Sculptures of horsemen and sculptures of the four horsemen of the apocalypse were created in connection with these sculptures. Their legs and arms are curled into wheels as if they were riding a motorcycle. They turn into a machine that functions only in the dream realm or in subconscious visions. The shape illusion is however convincing enough to make the viewer succumb to the idea of a controlled ride and to participate internally.

Mission Dresden 2022

Bronze male figures, feline beasts and horses. Structure covered silhouettes of bodies walk in one direction through the space of the square. Subconscious memories of aimless wandering through the promised land made of bronze. Figures of men, extended arms, horses and beasts halt their story and extend it into the present without an explanation. The sculptures on the cornices and roofs of the surrounding historical buildings, united in an enduring monumental narrative, tie in to the small bronze archetypal group strolling from the river between the buildings towards the city center.

The sculptural group comprises three enclosed and named sculptures. None of the three sculptures are represented in full here. It has, however, always a majority of the sculptures of which it is composed.

The "Players" sculpture group contains 13 male figures. There are 10 of them in Dresden. Three remain in Zlín.

The sculpture group "The Pack" consists of seven felines - seven animals. There are 5 of them in Dresden. Two remain in Zlín, where together with the Three Players and a school of five bronze sharks they form another story.

The sculpture group "The Rider" consists of three horses and a rider who sits on the fourth horse. There are three horses in Dresden. The horse and rider are in the process of being cast in bronze.