Lot 215

Miroslav Vystrčil (1924 - 2014) A CLOUD

The model for the sculpture at the housing estate in Opava is manifested by Vystrčil's tendency to stretch the sculptures into round shapes and round them harmoniously. The lobed shape from 1967 is the beginning of a new wave of work with a golden core - the sun. Vystrčil's generation, strong in numbers and qualities, went through the study in a very complicated period and had only a very short time to exhibit. In the 1960s, the Máj 57 group significantly enriched the Czech art scene qualitatively, and although Miroslav Vystrčil was not very interested in presenting and promoting his work, his contribution to preserving the development of Czech art in the most difficult times of communist persecution cannot be neglected.

Published by: GAVU Cheb, Miroslav Vystrčil. Retrospective, 2017. p. 55.