David Tureček↓

About the work

David Tureček’s diploma has two layers – an abstract and a figural one – where the linking aspects are introspection and references to his childhood. Several stretched and smooth forms stem from the experience of a child watching his father preparing a traditional Czech Christmas dish, carp, when the adult hands the fish bladder to the child, telling him it is the animal’s soul. The sensitive young mind could have perceived this both visual and haptic experience as the first explanation of metaphysical issues, as the artist himself remembers. Other sculptures are utterly different; they are figural and realistic, but again reflect childhood. One, sketchier than the rest, represents a bridge to the previous works, where the child clutches fish bladders. Another one, of the artist’s elderly brother, embodies the feelings held toward him, such as certainty, intimacy, and mutual closeness. Both parts of the diploma thus materialize Tureček’s inward feelings based on his memories.