Pet Tropicana
photo: (Michal Cihlář)
The Botanical Gardens full of plastic animals and plants, could be a brief description of the exhibition that can be viewed from 2nd February in the Prague Botanical Gardens in the Fata Morgana Tropical Greenhouse. The exhibition will be open to the public until 2nd May 2010.
The sculptor, Veronika Richterová, who has been experimenting with various materials for several years, is the author of the exhibition. In the past for example she has created an unusual collection of large enamel sculptures made from bent materials. Veronika Richterová is also the author of the bronze sculptures of the Seven Suricates and Gaston the Sea lion in
Prague ZOO (map) and the co-author of the Pavement of Fame in front of its entrance. During the last six years she has focused on creating works of art from plastic PET bottles and has called this work PET-ART.
Visitors will be able to meet Veronika Richterová personally during a guided tour by the author around the PET TROPICANA exhibition on 6th February, 6th March and 10th April, always from 2 p.m.
All the exhibited sculptures are harmonically integrated into living nature, so it can be quite difficult to discover all the animals and plants at first glance. The dominant exhibit of the PET TROPICANA exhibition is the three metre long crocodile, whose body is made up of more than 170 bottles, some of which are closed so that the crocodile remains floating on the water’s surface from where it observes visitors. More than sixty sculptures can be seen in the exhibition. Interesting “pet” exhibits include the east-Australian Satin Bower Bird or a flock of fruit bats, a porcupine, a pangolin, butterflies, chameleons, etc.
The Fata Morgana Greenhouse is open from Tuesday to Sunday, it is closed on Monday.
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