Lubo Kristek and Jaromír Tomeček in Podhradí nad Dyjí

Lubo Kristek with writer Jaromír Tomeček by revealing of Kristek’s sculpture Divine Ephemerality of Tone. Tomeček delivered a poetic speech: ‘Socrates relates that long ago, people were symmetrical. They had no obverse, they had no reverse, they had no front or back and, in this symmetry, they were so strong that they posed a threat to the gods. Then, the Olympic gods came to see Zeus and said: "Look at those humans, whose fame reaches till the Olympus." And Zeus succumbed to the insistence of the gods, he took the humans, and, as Plato says, he cut them like sorbs to pickle them. And so,
people became half persons.
Yet if two halves that once belonged to each other fuse, an individual is born, who threatens the gods. And this individual, this person, is gifted with love. Love cannot be alone. Love always comes together with faith and hope. Faith in life, hope in the world and love for the earth, that is the phenomenon that dominates
humankind, in case an apostle of this kind appears. And the apostle in this place is our friend, Lubo Kristek. Lubo Kristek comes with what humans have needed since time immemorial – they need to nourish their soul.
Kalos kagathos, that was a phenomenon that fused truth and beauty in ancient Greece, it connected human mind with human heart and, for that, a pontifex is
needed, Master Kristek in our case, whose oeuvre we were admiring yesterday at the castle and whose artworks can be found worldwide in museums, beatifying the human mind and human hearts. And we must be grateful to him for that.
And me in this place, I send regards not only to the art of Master Kristek, I send regards also to his faith, hope and love. In us who are here. In us, the people, who are living the modern era, in which we are searching for the salvation of ourselves, in which we are looking for the aim of our terrestrial journey, and he is the one who shows the path towards beauty and truth.’