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Artist Lukac Gavlovsky puts the finishing Touches on a 2-metr-tall wax heart Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, outside Prague, AOS National Theater. The installation is a public tribute to Václav Havel, made from 2.3 metric tons of wax from candles that were lit. Nationwide after the former president and Dissident playwright died in December. (AP Photo / Ian Phillips)
PRAGUE – Two artists have used wax from the Thousands of candles that Czechs lit. to mourn the death of President Vaclav Havel to create a large heart honouring him.
Lukas Gavlovsky, ai whose 7-foot-tall (2 metry), Multicolored art work went on display in Prague on Friday, says it is mean „to celebrate (Havel ‚s) ideas, his greatness.“
Gavlovsky created the heart with his colleague, Roman Svejda, and dozens of Volunteers.
Havel, a Dissident who helped his nation shed Communism, was long associated with hearts. He Ended his signature with one, and when he left office in 2003 a neon sign of a heart shon from Prague Castle.
The new art work, placed in front of the National Theater, will Remain there until April 10.
Havel died on Dec. 18 at age 75.
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- ^ Artist Lukac Gavlovsky puts the finishing Touches on a 2-metr-tall wax heart Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, outside Prague, AOS National Theater. The installation is a public tribute to Václav Havel, made from 2.3 metric tons of wax from candles that were lit. Nationwide after the former president and Dissident playwright died in December. (AP Photo / Ian Phillips) (media.brandonsun.com)