The building at 8 Ventúrska Street was until recently home to K Gallery, s.r.o. In 2005, the gallery owners commissioned the sculptor Martin Lettrich to create a work of art for the entrance to their premises that would be an eye-catcher and, at the same time, a barrier to prevent the area in front of the building from being cluttered with café furniture. 

The artist created an abstract, vertically composed work set on a cuboid concrete pedestal. It comprised slender, delicately curved, interconnected longitudinal panels irregularly cut from galvanized sheet metal. The sculpture’s title, Don’t Disturb my Circles, is an interpretation of the famous Latin phrase “Noli tangere circulos meos!” (literally translated as “Do not touch my circles!”), which Archimedes of Syracuse is alleged to have said to a Roman soldier before the soldier pierced the scholar with a spear. 

The work, which had been legitimately placed in a public space, disappeared from Ventúrska Street after K Gallery ceased its operations there (according to the artist, the work has likely been removed to a location outside Bratislava). 

Note: The sculpture is mentioned in the publication 500 × Art in Public (Chris van Uffelen, 2011), which presents a selection of five hundred works installed in public spaces around the world. 

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Research status as of 16. 07. 2024.