The church of Saint Georges de Lukova contains an extraordinary artistic work!
On the Internet, you can have fun looking for the most frightening places in the globe and for lovers of great chills and strong sensations, there is something to take care of. But have you already visited the church of St. Georges in Lukova, in Czech Republic ? It is quite possible that you do not return to compensation so much this abandoned place of men and time will take you to the throat.
Departure
Built in the 14th century, the Church of Saint George of Lukova was abandoned in 1968. At that time, the roof collapsed on faithful who had come to attend a funeral. Almost 32 victims in total.
The people of the village of Lukova saw in this drama a sinister presage and never returned to the church again. More than 50 years after the incident, while the religious building remains under threat of destruction, Czech artist had the idea of placing 32 statues of plastered characters on the benches left in the state. Each "ghost" of this past represents a faithful one who came to pray before the 1968 drama.
The artistic installation
This is the artist Jakub Hadrava who had the idea of “reviving” these ghosts of a long time. The plaster statues occupy the benches, the head lowered as if they were in full contemplation or in recollection. These statues represent the wandering souls who did not find rest after the drama.
Thanks to this permanent exhibition by artist Jakub Hadrava, the show is quite bluffing, edifying, surprising, almost glauque and yet quite exceptional and singular. The effect is successful: the white spectrum with mysterious looks, fixed in time and space, replace the faithful and it is possible for you to come and sit alongside them, the time of a remembrance, a recollection.
The church of Saint-Georges de Lukova, located in the region of Bohemia in the north-west of the Czech Republic, is part of these so-called haunted, forgotten places of the rest of the planet and it is also the opportunity to remember where one comes from, to discover or to rediscover the history of a population, of a city. This place, a priori terrifying, remains no less beautiful and fascinating .
The church, now a high tourist place, generates recipes to preserve the site. Tourists flock from Germany, Australia, Brazil to discover this unique work of art and also to make a donation in order to renovate this sanctuary out of the fall will say some.
Whether or not you believe in ghosts, it is quite possible that you will no longer enter a church in the same way after seeing this artistic exhibition and this church still so alive.
Photos via The Infinite Beauty of Decay, Frank Zumbach , radio.cz
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