Exhibition ROBOT built for Josef Čapek & Karel Čapek by Ruairí O'Brien

The exhibition ROBOT designed and built for Josef Čapek & Karel Čapek

BARDINALE 2012 poetry festival in Dresden.
"It is virtually impossible to think of anyone culturally more important and also more prominent in the country that was then known as Czechoslovakia, between the WW1 and WW2, than the Čapek brothers. While Karel Čapek was always better known of the two, Josef was never too far behind, and when not directly involved he often appears to have been the inspiration behind the works his younger brother wrote. As is the case even with the play R.U.R., which had made Karel internationally famous, in a sense even immortal — where Josef was apparently responsible for just one thing — the invention of the word “robot”......... "
Read more under: http://www.booksplendour.com.au/capek/index.htm

Information sculpture for Kurt Vonnegut - Ruairí O'Brien

My Birthday greetings for Kurt Vonnegut, born 11.11.1922 !

As a small gift or gesture I am publishing as preview a drawing depicting a small section of the Vonnegut information sculpture I have designed for the Slaughterhouse in Dresden where Vonnegut was held as prisoner of war. It was here that he experienced the destruction of Dresden. The work will be installed on the wall in the basement where the prisoners of war were housed. The historical building is today the Trade fair center in Dresden.

The work will be presented to the public on the 13. febuary 2013 a very special day in the city of Dresden which is used each year to discuss the futility of war.