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Chochola’s homeless people

Umělec magazine 2007/1

01.01.2007

Lenka Vítková | review | en cs de

Matyáš Chochola, student of scuture at the Academy of Visual Arts, Brno, was in Prague for the summer. When the Sculpture Grande exposition was set out on Wenceslas Square, Chochola had a lot of time on his hands. He befriended some homeless people who’d been living on a Vltava river island. They found material from containers and used a lot of tape. One day they decided to go install the whole thing. The sculptures held together for a couple of days, and photographs were presented at the department of macromolecular chemistry in Prague, where there is a gallery called Makráč. To be continued…




01.01.2007

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