Bedřich Smetana
Illusion Art Museum Prague
2019
A dual perspective anamorphous installation depicting the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák. The installation is made from various types of musical instruments – a piano, a violin, drums, cymbals, a maraca with a trumpet, a guitar and guitar picks for the nose, microphones in corpus membranes for the eyes, Indian pipes, a Native American pipe, a clarinet, a guitar amplifier with effects, a lute and a mini guitar, sheet music for Smetana’s symphonic poem ‘Vltava’, a vinyl of ‘My Fatherland’, electric guitar cables for the hair and facial hair, a harmonica, a sound-proofed ear, jacks, a disco-ball, and various parts of musical instruments. The installation is a part of the permanent exhibition in Illusion Art Museum Prague.
