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Artist-a | Michal Trpák

Artist-a

2024
Up side down, or up legs or just up… Fifth light sculpture from stainless steel for residential building in Prague.
Dancers | Michal Trpák

Dancers

2024
Dancers, one of 5 sculptures for a residential project in Prague. Dance, express energy, the dynamics of movement where every muscle expresses some emotion. That’s why both figures are made up of small figures in different…
Snake Woman | Michal Trpák

Snake Woman

2024
Snake Woman, a sculpture inspired by the real Snake Woman Elodie The first design was created in 2019 and was initially realized as a glass relief. Later, I developed it into a monumental illuminated stainless steel…
Mobile gallery Aquarium | Michal Trpák

Mobile gallery Aquarium

2023
A twelve-meter shipping container transformed into an original traveling gallery. Thanks to the new glass walls, the shipping container has been transformed into a novel exhibition space. The roof of the container also has its own function,…
Papillon | Michal Trpák

Papillon

2022–2023
Marketa Pilatova: From book Stone to Protozoa: When Friedensreich Hundertwasser built his ship Regentag, he didn’t need any houses anymore. He got his captain’s license and kept sailing until he died…
Ballet dancer | Michal Trpák

Ballet dancer

2022
Joy of movement
Skateboard man | Michal Trpák

Skateboard man

2022
Joy of riding making one in red lines…
Collectors | Michal Trpák

Collectors

2017–2022
Meditation | Michal Trpák

Meditation

2022
Angels | Michal Trpák

Angels

2021
Commissioned project for private residency in Prachatice Czech republic.
Gemma | Michal Trpák

Gemma

2020
Gemma residence, Skanska real estate, Prague
Slight Uncertainty | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty

2019
Male and female sculptures with umbrelas and iluminated suitcases installed in the hotel lobby. Studio One Hotel Dubai
Cherubin of Sumava mountains | Michal Trpák

Cherubin of Sumava mountains

2022
Sculpture was made within a sympozium at Pasečná.
The parallel world of angels | Michal Trpák

The Parallel World of Angels

2018
Statues that were created in cooperation with Petmat! The parallel world of angels, the world we only suspect and imagine, we often idealize and believe in its salvation, oversight over us or the protection…
Ascensio Domini | Michal Trpák

Ascensio Domini

2018
This sculpture is created from polycarbonate plates and aluminium and it creates the impression of levitation “ascension to heaven”. Installed in the residential district of Prachatice.
Looking for Freedom| Michal Trpák

Looking for Freedom

2017
To get rid of your anchors and fly, just to float over everyone’s heads.
Feeling of Freedom | Michal Trpák

Feeling of Freedom

2016
To fly, just to float over the heads of everyone and to mirror the world in yourself. With the lightness that is redeemed by abandoning everything or accepting the fact that everything is just an illusion.
Mirroring | Michal Trpák

Mirroring

2017
Fountain in private garden. A stylized ECG curve made of fused glass and bronze figures walking along its path and reflecting…
Gaia - Micrarium | Michal Trpák

Gaia – Micrarium

2018
Micrarium, a unique work in the Biological Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which combines nature, science and art. A light wall with thousands of microscopic slides and a relief of the goddess Gaia, consisting of dozens of butterflies, beetles,…
Gender Dialogue | Michal Trpák

Gender Dialogue

2015
A talk between a man and a woman – and a dialogue between the sexes in general.
The Thinker | Michal Trpák

The Thinker

2017
The Thinker is inspired by the Auguste Rodin statue. The Thinker as the image of society which is reflected in him. Exhibited in 2017 in Arles, France.
The Thinker | Michal Trpák

The Thinker

2015
The statue is a paraphrase of the famous Thinker by sculptor Auguste Rodin. Seated on a chair, covered with silhouettes of stylized figures in various positions, the Thinker symbolically represents the consciousness of all mankind.
Thinkers | Michal Trpák

Thinkers

2014
Myslitelé | Michal Trpák

Thinkers

2010
Going... | Michal Trpák

Going…

2014
I made this idea first in 2008 as a mobile sculpture for the atrium of Palac Krizik in Prague. It is made from bigger single figures and whole sculpture is 6 m tall and it is hanging…
Slight Uncertainty | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty – Mein Schiff

2015
Sculpture installation Slight Uncertainty in the foyer of the Mein Schiff cruise ship of TUI cruises.
Slight Uncertainty | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty

2017
Slight Uncertainty | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty – bronze

2013
The feeling from lightness of the flight but also uncertainty from the duration of the flight and landing. While some are still hovering, the others are already waiting for landing.

Slight Uncertainty – exterior

2013
The feeling from lightness of the flight but also uncertainty from the duration of the flight and landing. While some are still hovering, the others are already waiting for landing.

Slight Uncertainty – mobile

2014
The feeling from lightness of the flight but also uncertainty from the duration of the flight and landing. While some are still hovering, the others are already waiting for landing.
Slight Uncertainty - Fold7 | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty – Fold7

2014
Sculptures installed in company Fold7 in London, England.
Online romance | Michal Trpák

Online Romance

2015
Distant yet connected, mentally or digitally…
Happy Breast Feeding Times | Michal Trpák

Happy Breast Feeding Times

2015
Happy nursling living in his own world of fantasy, in our world everything is new and happens for the first time. The perception of reality in his head might create different surreal stories.
Slight Uncertainty | Michal Trpák

Slight Uncertainty

2012
These sculptures were made for EBC office center in Prague in the Czech Republic. There are two sizes of the sculptures  (90 and 160 cm) and from sketching to installation they took around half…
Contemporary Cherub | Michal Trpák

Contemporary Cherub

2011
The Dialogue | Michal Trpák

The Dialogue

2008–2009
Dialogues of Spaces | Michal Trpák

Dialogues of Spaces

2009
An object that was built within a project called Sculptural Cages in Ceské Budejovice works with a concept of connecting architecture, sculpture and greenery. I opened my cage for dialogue between the spectators and space.…
Gaia and Humanoid | Michal Trpák

Gaia and Humanoid

2009
Gaia was created in cooperation with a landscape architect Lenka Kulišťáková and Pascal Silondi who made the 3D video for Humanoid.
The Curious Guys | Michal Trpák

The Curious Guys

2013
Installed in old niche in Split house in Ceske Budejovice.
On the Waves of Information (reader)| Michal Trpák

On the Waves of Information (reader)

2011

Free Captive

2009

2009

Penetration through Reality | Michal Trpák

Penetration through Reality

2007
Going... | Michal Trpák

Going…

2008
Installed in palace Křižík, Prague.
Angel | Michal Trpák

Angel

2010
Politicians - marionettes | Michal Trpák

Politicians – marionettes

2004–2005
Wooden moving figures shaking hands if one pulls the rope.
Meeting between Pixels | Michal Trpák

Meeting between Pixels

2008
Exhibited at the Lannova Street in České Budějovice within the exhibition “Sculpture Quartet in the City” with a group of 4sculptors.
Humanoids | Michal Trpák

Humanoids

2006–2007
Humanoids-people, machines or tools serving the system. Crowds, deliberately permitting control by media and general trends. The man stopped to be the individuality and in the chase for a “better” life more likely forms existence of the system……
Escape into Reality (What Does a Painting Think?) | Michal Trpák

Escape into Reality (What Does a Painting Think?)

2007
Escape into reality is a combination of a painting, a relief and a sculpture, it outlines a transition between the real and virtual world, between 2D and 3D form, between sensed and tangible… Is it possible for a form to be…
Vandals | Michal Trpák

Vandals

2008
Quite early after an attack on the group of sculptures „Meeting between Pixels“ Iva Sedláková (the head of the Department of Culture of the town Ceske Budejovice) and I agreed on a new installation. With a certain satiric exaggeration, I decided to place…
Readers | Michal Trpák

Readers

2005
The sculptures of the readers are located on the Baroque fountain on the Grape Courtyard of the Klementinum, the National Library in Prague.