Mythological Landscape No. 95 in Three Acts

At Kristek’s happening in Podhradí nad Dyjí in 1995, thousands of people arrived. In the article With Kristek to Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Mit Kristek in die
CSFR, 27 July 1995, p. 10), Lech-Ammersee Rundschau wrote: "At present, the famous artist Lubo Kristek puts all his creative abilities into a new project named ‘Mythological Landscape No. 95 in Three Acts’. It will include three elements: water, earth and air. He will impress his ideas into the forest chapel. In the village of Podhradí amidst the protected forest of the South Moravian region
of the Czech Republic, this unveiling of the forest chapel will take place on 12 August 1995 at 11.20 p.m."
The Landsberg Department of Culture and Tourism was dispatching buses to the Czech Republic. Visitors from different parts of the world were arriving, including both the Czech and German media.
The German press came with the article by Ina Kresse, A Happening With Reduced Nakedness (Happening mit reduzierter Nackheit, Landsberger Tagblatt, 24 August 1995, p. 21): "At this extraordinary spectacle, about 3000 visitors from the Czech Republic and Europe arrived. Actresses disguised as nymphs, as well as a group of stilt walkers from Landsberg and Munich imparted to the tenebrous night something mysterious." The iron bridge over the river Thaya was completely weighed down with visitors like bunches of grapes. On the river banks, there was no more space. From the river, three crosses protruded, with a nymph burning on one of them. Kristek as a boatman arrived on a raft to liberate her (he put his hand into the flame as if in a trance; he still has the scars from burning himself). The nymph who walked through the flame then reappeared in the chapel.
The Czech Television broadcast a coverage by Jura Kavan suffused with the atmosphere of the event: "Through the valley of the river Thaya, August clouds were flowing peacefully. Somewhere behind them, Max Ernst and André Breton were peeping at the mother Earth. They were nodding their heads winking at each other meaningfully every now and then. They were definitely showing
interest. What is the Kristek doing there again? (…) The dreamy composition, created by the fusion of three elements – water, earth and air – and enhanced by the music of Otakar Olšaník but also the performance of the Munich theatre group, Stilt Walkers, drew everyone up to the threshold of the artist’s soul. All that culminated in the opening of a forest sanctuary, a chapel, created exactly in the sense of Lubo’s post-surrealist art stance."
The chapel was inaugurated by the writer Jaromír Tomeček. Crowds of people who wanted to see it were flowing until three in the morning. In the article by Vlastimil Mrva I was Gawping, Jaromír Tomeček Was Gawping, Diadem Spiders Were Gawping, Totally All of Us Were Gawping (Čuměl jsem já, čuměl Jaromír Tomeček, čuměli křižáci, čuměli
jsme lautr všichni, 5 September 1995, p. 5), the Znojemsko stated: "One only needs to cross a threshold enchanted by the Word, and the enthralling genius loci will undoubtedly turn you off from thinking about anything at all: Kristek’s surrealist dream will swathe you in a bluish repetitive voice, the nymph with a child will conspiratorially give you a nod, the swans will take off, and you will realize that Little Jesus never died. Man only forgot about him for some time."