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Bronze, colored. Cement, lead and bronze were Olbram Zoubek's favorite materials. He often added gilding and polychrome painting to his sculptures and statues. “I'm a contemporary person but also a traditionalist. I make sculptures just as they've been made since time immemorial. And in the history of art, in all eras, sculptures were colored,” said Olbram Zoubek, who for a while took to gilding his cement statues. “Cement is considered the cheapest, most ordinary material, whereas gold is the utter opposite – it is a symbol of value and eternity. It is this tension between the fleeting and the timeless that I enjoy in my work,” he said. The three partially polychrome cement statues of Kazi, Teta, Libuše (2002) are Zoubek's second variation on this theme from Bohemian mythology. The sculptor first treated this theme in 1998.