IX. Station of the Cross above Židlochovice
On Sunday, October 13, 2024, the IX Station of the Way of the Cross was ceremoniously presented and blessed in the landscape at Výhon above Židlochovice. The Way of the Cross arises from the activity of the city and the parish. It is designed for this local landscape and its topography, and is land art on a landscape scale, just like the Ways of the Cross in the Baroque period. Its stations are designed from the square around the rectory, through the forest to the horizon and beyond. The Way of the Cross is the work of architect and sculptor Marek Jan Štěpán. The inspiration comes from one of his dreams during the COVID pandemic. The captured dreams, visions, and feelings have been processed in a manner similar to that of the surrealists and transformed into matter.
IX. station – Jesus falls under the cross – is, like the others, in an abstract form that speaks in a contemporary language. Here, Jesus is stylized into the most perfect shape of a sphere. The circle has always been a symbol of divine things, and the sphere is its spatial transcription.
The IX station is installed on the horizon of the landscape, so it can be seen even from distant views. The composition of the cross and sphere is in a very unstable mutual position with respect to the theme of the fall. The sphere made of polished concrete has a diameter of 2.6 m and is "gently laid" on the grass; the cross is made of HEB steel beams and is 7 m long. The realization was carried out by Břetislav Eichler's company. A financial collection will now be held for the next station.
Marek Jan Štěpán: "The Way of the Cross is related to the main altar of Hildebrandt's parish church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Židlochovice. The exceptionally plastic treatment of the tabernacle altar compositional works with the motif of a golden cross and white clouds. It thus deals with the theme of a metallic golden cross and abstracted white sky. This is very similar to the theme I am addressing in this Way of the Cross. If its author were alive today, we would probably find common ground."
IX. station – Jesus falls under the cross – is, like the others, in an abstract form that speaks in a contemporary language. Here, Jesus is stylized into the most perfect shape of a sphere. The circle has always been a symbol of divine things, and the sphere is its spatial transcription.
The IX station is installed on the horizon of the landscape, so it can be seen even from distant views. The composition of the cross and sphere is in a very unstable mutual position with respect to the theme of the fall. The sphere made of polished concrete has a diameter of 2.6 m and is "gently laid" on the grass; the cross is made of HEB steel beams and is 7 m long. The realization was carried out by Břetislav Eichler's company. A financial collection will now be held for the next station.
Marek Jan Štěpán: "The Way of the Cross is related to the main altar of Hildebrandt's parish church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Židlochovice. The exceptionally plastic treatment of the tabernacle altar compositional works with the motif of a golden cross and white clouds. It thus deals with the theme of a metallic golden cross and abstracted white sky. This is very similar to the theme I am addressing in this Way of the Cross. If its author were alive today, we would probably find common ground."
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