Strange Adoration of Sculptor Kotrba

Brno incredibly thinks of sculptors and organizes one sculpture competition after another.
It has set itself the goal of decorating the city at all costs and is coming up with convincing themes for this purpose. Ten prominent personalities who have touched Brno is the first major project. Mozart by Kurt Gebauer is already standing on the pedestal where it should be, at Reduta.
The boys are already welding Edison bulbs under the supervision of Tomáš Medek.
The competition for the fountain was approved by the councilors, and hopefully, fish or a crocodile will swim in it, which I will try to prevent as the third substitute of the expert committee in every way possible (it is strange that there has not been a sculptor in the committees so far).
And to make it worthwhile, the square of virtues will be initiated by sculptor Kotrba, who convincingly won this justice competition. With Edison, it was just narrowly missed, but this time he hit the mark.
This competition was set up particularly remarkably and among the invited, privileged ones were three architectural studios, Stefan Milkov and Jarda Róna, besides me.
The more rational wing had the upper hand, and it looked like Brno could build on the modest and clean architectural treatment of Freedom Square. The architectural concept of "virtues" for Moravian Square by architect Hrůša was convincing in its entirety, but perhaps it was precisely because of that entirety that I perceived this area differently.
Certain doubts about the integrity of thinking regarding the sculptural intention for Moravian Square arose for me after a brief television report, when architect Hrůša answered a question concerning the theme by saying that Kuks is an example for him and that virtues are necessary, but he overlooked the essential, which makes Kuks Kuks is the clear architectural and sculptural concept, because the sculptural decoration is the work of the great sculptor Matyáš Bernard Braun, and therein lies its undeniable strength.
I ask myself what will be the proclaimed strength of virtues in Moravian Square in Brno, which already undermines this supporting idea from the very beginning. And what will happen when those universally understandable and perhaps realistically tangible bronzed statues of justice, courage, bravery, valor, truth, love, humility, and boorishness are erected here, each one different…
The jury's decision was announced according to the schedule and directly on television, as it should be. Immediately afterward, or even earlier, Róna and Milkov voiced their displeasure with the winner or his proposal, because, just like Kaplický, Kotrba allegedly did not fulfill the competition conditions.
Unfortunately, I do not know how it was, but I hoped that it would be revealed at the exhibition of proposals in the Urban Center at the Old Town Hall.
The proposals were indeed displayed here, and everything seemed to be in order. I searched in vain for flaws in the awarded proposals and the requested A1 panels with drawings of the designs into photographs from other competitors, with text explaining the author's intent, description of the construction, materials, and financial requirements.
So I took care to do well on it.
All surfaces were filled with photographs, texts, and reflections by sculptor Kotrba.
Since I was in a hurry for the bus, I managed only to view the displayed models, which, it seems, no one does properly anymore. I did not find the explanatory drawings in the photographs. The space was dominated by biographies, photos, and various tales from the life of sculptor Kotrba. From one panel, I only remembered "already twenty years ago," and since I wanted to buy something in the antiquarian shop "Na plechárně," I rushed out into the streets filled with sculptures, slightly stunned, to make it in time.
On the bus, I pondered the strange installation of proposals, the strange celebration of one of the many garden sculptures by Kotrba, what Milkov and Róna have against him, the future of Brno, and my great fortune that I can teach students to understand art here and get money that is enough for my living.