Statue for Mendel: the Hrachovina monument commemorates famous scientists, look
The author of the winning design of the architectural competition is the Brno sculptor Jaromír Gargulák. In order to penetrate the secrets of the laws of inheritance defined by Mendel, he bought home games, which he observed after planting in the various stages of cultivation. “I felt like I used to be in elementary school, when I started growing peas, waking up to life, and based on that, I started sketching and modeling bodies. Mendel based his crossing on the color and shape of the seed and subsequently discovered the famous ratio 9: 3: 3: 1, which is also dominant in my sculpture, “said Gargulák.
In the final voting of the jury, the detailed harmony of Gargulák’s proposal with Mendel’s laws of inheritance decided the victory of Hrachovina. “The winning design consists of a total of four separate objects and contains all the laws of inheritance defined by Mendel, while the monumental part of the work depicts the crossing of alleles at complete dominance, where the resulting phenotypic fission ratio occurs on Mendel’s Square.” jury member Kurt Gebauer approached.
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The work will be 4.6 meters high. It creates four objects together. The first two refer to pea-crossing attempts that did not germinate. The dominant third part consists of sixteen alleles, the vertices of which are round or square. The fourth part is an explanatory cube with Braille. The sculpture will be made mainly of bronze, the inside will be hollow. The weight of the whole work will be twelve tons.
EIGHT AND HALF A MONTH IN PRODUCTION
Gargulák has eight and a half months to create the work. The central area will be decorated by a space named after scientists next summer. A 15-member team will take part in the production of the monument. It will be built in a foundry in Brno’s Slatina.
The new statue will stand just a few meters from where Mendel conducted his experiments. “It is quite common in the world’s metropolises for their greatest personality to give up in a similar way. And we in Brno can be really proud that such a person worked here. The work should become not only a memorial to Mendel’s exceptional tourist legacy, but also one of the goals, “said Brno Mayor Markéta Vaňková.
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Pope Francis recently blessed the cornerstone of the monument in Rome. Mendel was a member of the Augustinian order and at the same time one of its most important representatives of all time. “The statue for Mendel, who is ahead of its time in its uniqueness, is a certain thank you and a natural moral commitment for us. Just because the results of Mendel’s discoveries were not understood during his lifetime and he received scientific recognition only after his death. Mendel is unique and has an overlap, “explained Jan Emil Biernat, an economist at the Old Brno Abbey.
COMPLETELY OTHER THAN OTHER SCULPTURES IN BRNO
The creation of the monument will be part of the scientist’s 200th birthday celebrations. It will be located in the middle of the renovated square. “The selected work is completely different from other sculptures in Brno. One of his interesting things will be that one can walk. We do not yet have such a statue in the city, “said the mayor’s deputy Petr Hladík.
The cost of the work is twenty million crowns without tax. Ten million will travel from the city budget. The organizers also count on contributions from private donors, they announced a public collection. “We are negotiating with specific partners who were interested in participating in this internationally important project. Thanks to the fact that Mendel was the father of genetics, we prepared for the most important donors, for example, the opportunity to store their DNA directly in the winning statue, “said Jakub Carda, director of the non-profit company Společné, which has long been popularizing Mendel’s legacy.