For Jizerská 50 I made a huge statue, about 12 meters in size (you can currently see it at the exhibition in Ostrava) – a cross-country skier who's just ran to the finish. But if we want to look for sports sculptures, the squatting figure is self-explanatory. This way one could say that even my sitting and in fact all the other figures are based on sports. Are there more sculptures inspired by sports?Įach figure is actually based on the human anatomy and certain proportions which I need to stick to. I think it was during one of the Sculpture Line festivals when your Exercising Figure grew up in Prosek. It is a perfect example of when the rational is useless and feelings must come into play. The statue literally absorbs your consciousness, you try to use your mind and find something to latch on to so that you can rationally explain it, but from many perspectives you find nothing but a bunch of lines. When you walk around it, you get lost in it. This way the figure looks a little different dependind on where you stand. ![]() ![]() It is not a material thing in the classically sculptural sense, but actually a sort of an allusion. It looks like you've sketched it out with a pencil. Yes, it will be a 4x4 m large figure of a rower composed of cubes and blocks. Are you planning anything similar for the ROW ROW ROW exhibition in Račice? As a sculptor you're mainly occupied with larger-than-life sculptures consisting of many fragments which then together form a figure. It can evoke any emotion you ask for and teaches you to work with yourself in an irrational way – which is something very important in the time when we put the main (and a little too much, in my opinion) emphasis on the mind. ![]() Art teaches you to search for something inside – to look at your soul unconsciously, it teaches you to respect things that you do not understand with your mind but feel inside. It's an amazing tool to better yourself and boost your self-esteem. In my opinion, one should begin with sport – it teaches discipline, losing, winning, coping with emotions, how to overcome oneself, to cope with pain (both physical and mental). Each does so in a slightly different phase of your life, each in a different way – sport tangibly, art spiritually. Both of these paths prepare you for life. I wouldn't even call them activities, they're rather life attitudes, maybe even spiritual paths. In their essence, they are very similar and interconnected. That's what's on my mind all the time ever since I quit my athlete and coach career. Can you find anything art and sport have in common? Are these two at first glance different activities similar? Many of my friends row, but it's too tough for me, I'd rather play hard than work hard. Football, floorball, skiing, sk8boarding, skating, cycling, swimming. Even though I might not be so great at some, I always enjoy them. I've always done what I enjoy and I enjoy pretty much any sport. Do you do any other sports besides snowboarding? Do you have any direct relationship to rowing? But being Evka's coach was an honor for me, she's a person you want to be with even if you don't work together anymore. But regarding how I enjoyed being the coach – I enjoyed it in my time and I think I enjoyed it enough to move on again. Nobody knew how to draw much there, so I took it all on myself and with no fear I drew Eff's mustache – after all, I have a background in it. ![]() Yes, it's true, that's actually why I used to join the snowboardcross team. Is that true? How did you enjoy your role as the coach? It is said that you were the one who drew Eva's proverbial mustache before the race. You are a former coach of Eva Samková, queen of the white track, snowboard crosser, who's by the way the winner of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In a few days, on the occasion of the 2022 World Rowing Championships, his larger-than-life sculpture inspired by this fascinating sport will sit on the rooftop of the Sport in Art Pop-Up gallery exhibiting contemporary art. People know him as a sculptor, a member of the national snowboard cross team, but also the coach of Eva Samková. Jakub Flejšar is the perfect person to write about in the Sport in Art magazine He does sports and art at the same time.
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