Michal Trpák is creating the first residential sculpture in the Czech Republic in České Budějovice

České Budějovice - Sculptor Michal Trpák is creating the first residential sculpture in the Czech Republic, which will serve as an extension of a dental office and lab. The three-story structure is being built in České Budějovice near the Small Dam on the Malše River, and it could be completed by the end of the year. Trpák told ČTK this.

The round shape of the windows may resemble a ship's cabin. The entrance to the building is stylized as a mouth, which relates to the dental office. "It’s all an organic form, culminating in a radio cap. I will never be an architect, but if it’s a challenge, if it’s creative and sculptural, then I don’t mind it as part of a broader team," said the thirty-six-year-old author, who is organizing the 11th year of the sculpture exhibition Art in the City in České Budějovice this year.

Below will be a cellar, above it an office, and on top a dental lab. Trpák drew inspiration from nature, which is why there are soft curves and shapes. It is organic architecture. His favorite architects are Gaudí, Javier Senosiain, and Peter Vetsch. The residential sculpture will be made of concrete.

"So far, no one has called the house a residential sculpture. It has sculptural shapes; I modeled it like a sculpture, and it developed differently than how architects work: they first make a 2D model on paper, and only then do they create the 3D model. I do it the other way around, which makes it more of a sculptural process: first, I modeled a clay model of the house, and then I translated that into a digital 3D model, from which cuts and floor plans were made," Trpák explained.

On the wall of the building to which the extension adjoins, there is Trpák's sculpture of a fly. The owner bought it previously. Trpák created three flies; one of them, a nearly hundred-kilogram three-meter one, hung on the Black Tower in České Budějovice from 2011 to 2017, and its original cast also made it to the castle gardens in Kroměříž, the brewery in Holešovice, and the office in Trutnov. The sculptor currently has it in his studio. The third fly is located on a hotel in Prague.

Art in the City this year offers 45 works by 31 artists at 12 locations. The works are in Budějovice, Hluboká, Veselí nad Lužnicí, on Mount Kleť, at Lipno, in Černá in Pošumaví, Temelín, Týn nad Vltavou, and at the castle in Koloděje nad Lužnicí. Trpák displayed sculptures in several locations, including Lipno's Rabbit Island. Two of his figures titled Feeling of Freedom hang above the bike path from Budějovice to Hluboká. The exhibition was one of the first of its kind in the Czech Republic. It inspired similar events in Prague, Trutnov, Kroměříž, and Plzeň. Trpák is currently also exhibiting in the Portuguese city of Águeda and in Paris.