Lot 194

Aleš Veselý (1935 - 2015) DESIGN OF A SCULPTURE

In the 1980s, Aleš Veselý created a series of studies in the form of "paintings" on paper, which he considered to be original works. He designed various, quite difficult to implement, giant buildings and sculptures. The principle of enormous mechanisms begins to appear in the drawings, which mediate the gravitational action of suspended loads and pendulums and balance the force of tension of massive springs by means of rods, levers and arms of rocker arms. The designs include sculptures containing natural untreated stones and tree trunks (Tree Trunk through the Big Wheel, 1993), giant compasses describing a footprint in the landscape (1984) or large wheels that are prevented from moving by a burden or asymmetrical anchorage. In the early 1990s, he first designed and later partially implemented a series of gates and corridors in which the passage threatens or is hindered by a suspended load or a pile of stones. From 1991 there is also A Cage (National Gallery in Prague), in which a huge steel plate is gripped by springs inside a rectangular structure made of wooden beams.