František Palacký, father of our nation, we have disappointed Stanislav Tomáš!
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František Palacký, father of our nation, we have disappointed Stanislav Tomáš! The group’s performance reacts to the death of Stanislav Tomáš in Teplice on 19 June. 2021, when this happened during the intervention of the Police of the Czech Republic. At the same time, the group does not agree with trivializing his death. With the performance, the group primarily wants to emphasize that Stanislav Tomáš was as well a Czech citizen. The text, placed on the monument of František Palacký, becomes part of the performance of the RKP group. At the time of its creation (1912), this text symbolized the successful emancipation of the Czech nation and its path to statehood. Using the text’s monument and the monumental work of the sculptor Stanislav Sucharda and the architect Alois Dryák, the RKP art group points out “From the faintness of oppression” that Stanislav Tomáš was a Czech citizen. |
