IX. Stopping of the Stations of the Cross above Židlochovice

IX. Station of the Cross in the landscape at Výhon above Židlochovice emerged from a joint activity of the municipal and parish community. It is designed for the local landscape and its topography, and is land art on a landscape scale, similar to the Stations of the Cross in the Baroque period. The inspiration comes from one of the author's dreams during the COVID pandemic. The captured dreams, visions, and feelings were processed in a similar way to the surrealists and transformed into material.

IX. Station – Jesus falls under the cross – is presented in an abstract form that speaks in a contemporary language. Here, Jesus is stylized into the most perfect shape of a sphere. The circle has always been a symbol of divine things, and the sphere is its spatial transcription. The IX. Station is installed on the horizon of the landscape, making it visible even from distant viewpoints. The composition of the cross and the sphere is in a very unstable mutual position in relation to the theme of falling. The sphere made of polished concrete has a diameter of 2.6 m and is effortlessly "laid" on the grass; the cross is made of HEB steel beam and is 7 m long. The realization was carried out by the company of Břetislav Eichler. This object will be part of the constructed Stations of the Cross, with a total of 14 stations.

Marek Jan Štěpán: "The Stations of the Cross is related to the main altar of Hildebrandt's parish church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Židlochovice. The exceptionally plastic treatment of the tabernacle altar compositionally works with the motif of a golden cross and white clouds. It deals with the theme of a metallic golden cross and the white abstracted sky. This is a very similar theme to what I am addressing in this Stations of the Cross. If its author were alive today, we would probably find a common note."