Erected along the facade of the Olomouc Museum of Art is a sculpture that draws crowds and certainly confuses locals.
Erected in 2017, It shows a robber has in his backpack the valuable sculpture of Karel Nepraš. He are runing away from the Museum of Modern Art in Olomouc when something goes wrong. The perpetrator is eight metres above the ground, but he can not get down.
This is the description of work by sculptor David Černý, which he revealed on May 19, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art. "The statue looks like its made of bronze, but its two and a half meters, that would be tough. The statue is made of patina laminate and weighs twenty to thirty kilograms," explains the artist. Its a premiere for him. "I modeled the statue in 3D space and then the robot made it in a three-dimensional shape. Its my first whole statue that the robot did, "David Black said.
Statue is also a technical work with two special Siemens motors. "The statue also can go about sixty metres in one cycle," said Pemavako director Martin Kosnar, who technically secured the movement of the statue. The robber also speaks.
