Prague’s Lennon Wall on Velkopřevorské náměstí is one of the capital’s most visited landmarks.
Over the years, the brightly painted wall behind which hides an enchanted garden has become a symbol of freedom, peaceful resistance to communist rule, a display board for love poems and a kind of symbolic tombstone a loving memorial to John Lennon.
More recently, it has mainly served as a canvas for professional and amateur artists around the world.
On September 7, 27 artists (each representing an EU country) and two special guests from Norway and Ukraine will gather in front of the Wall of Freedom and Energy.
In the spirit of “United in Diversity”, they will transform the Lennon Wall beyond recognition in one day. Together, they will create an impressive 35 x 5 meter “tableau”, which will symbolize the alliance of European nations of which the Czech Republic currently holds the presidency.
As a tribute to France, the country that held the EU presidency in the first semester, the work will then be photographed and printed at a 1:1 scale on a 2 meter thick inflatable wall and sent to Strasbourg, Paris and Brussels (from October 3 to 9, 2022).
The author and curator of the project is Pavel Št’astný, an artist and, among other things, the author of the logo of the Civic Forum, who has already twice taken care of a new look of the Lennon Wall.
The Hotel Mozart in Prague has a rich history of supporting artists for centuries. Therefore, the hotel is a proud partner in this project.
From September 6-8, the hotel will host all participating artists in its rooms, which will be within walking distance of the Lennon Wall thanks to the hotel’s convenient location in the very center of the metropolis. Andrea Žaba Klváčková from Slovakia, Jan Wessel from Denmark, Denis Klatt from Germany and many others will participate in the new shape of the wall.
The Czech Republic will be represented by Charlien, Lenka Brázdilová, who recently participated in the Czech exhibition on the fence of the Czech Embassy in Paris.
Everything starts at 9 a.m. and before the opening of the work, which is completed at 6.30 p.m., the hotel manager, Stefan Rådström, under the supervision of the artists, will spray paint the hotel logo and the My hotel match project on the wall.
The sponsor of the project is the CzechTourism agency and it was created in cooperation with the Deputy Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Jan Horník and the Czech Ambassador in Paris Michal Fleischmann.
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