Michal Gabriel

born: 25. 2. 1960
graduate: Akademie výtvarných umění Prague
address: Dlouhá 32, 110 00 Praha 1
e-mail: michalgabriel@hotmail.com
http://www.michal-gabriel.cz

In my mind, Mikulov is characterized by contrast between my imagination and reality. – With people who seem to be partying all time, drinking and not caring too much for practical things, who in fact work day in and day out and their thinking is very rational. – With distances, which are always much shorter in a town than one would expect. – With the Sacred Hill, which looks like a set piece but is in fact real. – With the oak trunk which seemed quite small but in fact gave me a hard time with finishing my statue. With the sun which seemed so harmless and then I got a heatstroke. Etc.
There were days when I was asking myself what else I was doing here apart from the statue and days when I asked myself why I was complicating my stay with the statue.
The symposium is over and I and my family left for Prague. Since then, ma children have asked me several times when we would go to Mikulov again.

Michal Gabriel
Prague, October 1997

Without Title
oak, height 280, Ø 125 cm, 1997

List of artists participating in MAS "dílna" in 1994–2010

Nikos Armutidis (1994 , 1999 , 2003) , Jan Bačkovský , Alena Beldová , Karl – Heinz Bethmann , Erika Bornová , Machiel Botman , Veronika Bromová , Milan Cais Tomáš Císařovský (2000 , 2001 , 2003) , Rostislav Čuřík Jiří David (2007 , 2008) , Stanislav Diviš , Milena Dopitová , Jana Doubková Eva Eisler (2005 , 2006) , Michal Gabriel , Zdeněk Halla , Zbyněk Havlín , Milan Houser , Dalibor Chatrný , Jeff Chiplis Petr Jareš (1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2003) , Irena Jůzová , Vladimíra Klumparová , Richard Kočí , Ondřej Kohout , Eva Koťátková , Nina Kotel , Jiří Kovanda , Vojtěch Kovářík , František Kowolowski , Radovan Král , Antonín Kratochvíl , Antonín Kratochvíl , Milan Kunc , Tomáš Lahoda Zdeněk Lhotský (1994 , 1995) Libor Lípa (1994 , 2000 , 2003) Ivana Lomová (2001 , 2002 , 2003) , Petr Lysáček , Christian Macketanz , Martin Mainer , Tomáš Medek , Vladimír Merta Stefan Milkov (1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Aleš Najbrt , Klára Nejezchlebová , Jaromíra Němcová Petr Nikl (2001 , 2003) , Libor Novotný Vít Novotný (1997 , 2003) , Pavel Opočenský , Petra Pavlicová , Jiří Pikous , Tereza Brichtová Pirščová , Petr Písařík , Viktor Pivovarov , Otto Placht Martina Riedlbauchová (1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2003) , Veronika Richterová , Ulric Roldanus Jaroslav Róna (1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Tomáš Ruller , Kamila Rýparová , Vladimir Salnikov , František Skála , Roman Sliwka , Daniela Sneppová Jiří Sobotka (1999 , 2005) , Tono Stano , Jan Stolín , Václav Stratil , Antonín Střížek Čestmír Suška (1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Michal Šmeral , Vladimír Špaček , Jindřich Štreit , Laco Teren , Michaela Klimanová Trizuljaková , Účastníci 10. ročníku MVS , Woody Vasulka , Tereza Velíková , Kateřina Vincourová , Eva Vones , Michaela Vrbková Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1999 , 2004) , Petr Zubek

Realized as Part of the Project

Mikulov – a Town of Art.

This Project is Co-funded by the European Union and the South-Moravian Region.