Photo: Ian Willoughby, Radio Prague International
Sculptor David Černý is known to many visitors to Prague for his babies on Žižkov TV Tower and moving Kafka head in the downtown area. Now the colourful artist has a brand new museum – Musoleum – showcasing a cross-section of his works in a former distillery in the Smíchov district. I spoke to Černý there ahead of Saturday’s opening.
“The idea is to get rid of my stuff which was filling up my studio, so it’s partly of course also a storage.
“That was actually the original name that I called it – then I swapped for Musoleum.
“Also behind it is the fact that a friend of mine, who is the owner of the Trigema group, bought this property, which was falling apart for almost 30 years – it was the investment of one British guy who bought it for almost nothing in I think ’92 or ’93 and then just left it.
“Marcel Soural, the owner of Trigema, bought the whole property and this building was actually preserved, plus the chimney.
“Because I’m also the co-architect of the whole complex which will be surrounding this building, we were thinking about what to do with this preserved building.
“So we decided to do something with culture, whatever, a museum.
“And after many discussions it ended up like, Why don’t we do your show here [laughs]?”
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Author: Ian Willoughby