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Since last Saturday, the main entrance to the Beroun Rehabilitation Centre has been decorated with a bronze bust of MUDr. Jan Calta and since the same day his name has been an integral part of this modern pavilion. The unveiling was attended by dozens of people, including colleagues and family members of Dr. Calta. The life and contribution of MUDr. Jan Calta was discussed by Mgr. Martin Kupka, Deputy Governor of the Central Bohemian Region for Health Care, and Ondřej Horáček, M.D., current head of the Beroun Rehabilitation Centre.
On behalf of the company Jessenia a.s., which operates the RN Beroun, spoke MUDr. Martin Sklenář, MBA, who highlighted the energy and diligence that Dr. Calta has shown in transforming the Beroun rehabilitation centre into the most modern facility of its kind in the Czech Republic. As he noted, Dr. Calta "found paths where others would not even look for them, even if it sometimes meant wading through dense thickets or overgrown jungles." The proof of this is the building of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre in the Pardubice Region, which operates under the banner of Multiscan, of which he was the director. The way this centre is organised and managed is now held up as a model of how cancer care in the Czech Republic should be conceived. His "child" is also this unique Rehabilitation Centre in Beroun. "Who would have thought that after ten years, a facility that was more or less destined to be written off would be one of the most sought-after inpatient rehabilitation centres in the Czech Republic?" said Martin Sklenář, MD. All three speakers, together with Ing. Sotirios Zavalianis, the owner of RN Beroun, participated in the unveiling of the bust and memorial plaque of MUDr. Jan Calta.
The venue of the next event on Saturday, i.e. the conclusion of the sculpture symposium, was the hospital park, where Ing. Zavalianis awarded all participating sculptors. The theme of this year's symposium was the motifs of ancient mythology. As the academic painter Václav Zoubek noted, "Ancient inspiration has practically never disappeared from European culture. This made the sculptor's task easier and more complicated at the same time. They could build on the already completed solutions or find a new, their own way to the theme".
"It is fantastic that someone buys a hospital and, in order to make the premises not barracks-like, beautifies them. And there's still a sculpture symposium being launched to decorate the outside spaces. I'd call it a message from Greek antiquity to the Czech basin. The bearer of the message is the owner of this Beroun peninsula Ing. Sotirios Zavalianis," said Prof. Kurt Gebauer, academic sculptor, at the award ceremony. "It seems that the sculptures will not be in one fashionable style, they will be diverse, so that there is something to look at and discuss. It's good that young sculptors meet older sculptors who have been through many sculpture symposiums and realisations," Prof. Gebauer added.
The author, guarantor and the "soul" of the second sculpture symposium is the artist Jiří Fürst, himself the creator of several original sculptures. "When I saw the renovated park of the Beroun hospital a few years ago, I said to myself, yes, this is the right place for our generation to leave a legacy. All this space needs is a good dendrologist, a landscape architect, fresh water and two to three dozen good sculptures," he explains how the idea for the sculpture symposium came about.
This year's sculpture symposium was held with the participation of academic sculptors Robert Buček, Veronika Durová, Petr Fidrich, Kurt Gebauer, Žandy Gebauer, Jean-Paul Chablais, David Janouch, Josefina Jonášová, Juraj Plieštík and Marie Šeborová. Šárka Radová and Kateřina Strach Tichá were also guests of the symposium .
The guests could see not only the new sculptures made of Horice sandstone, but also the paintings from the morning plein air painting workshop led by ac. painter Helena Slavíková Hrušková. They could also listen to Greek music performed by the duo band Poseidon, which was replaced in the late afternoon by the band Voila!, or feel the music with movement during the modern expressive dance of the members of the dance group Rytmus Úvaly.
