Flying, Limestone statue in Michálkovice, Czech Republic

Letící is an abstract outdoor sculpture of shelly limestone made in 1965 by Czech sculptor Václav Uruba (1928–1983). It stands on a lawn in front of the primary school in Michálkovice, at U Kříže, in the Ostrava-Pánev lowland of Upper Silesia. The work depicts a horizontal flying male figure on a narrow plinth, with geometric shapes carved into the stone.

Artist Václav Uruba created this public sculpture in 1965 during a period of active artistic development in the Ostrava region. The work emerged when abstract art forms were increasingly entering public urban spaces across Czechoslovakia.

The sculpture stands on the lawn in front of the primary school on U Kříže street in Michálkovice, so pupils and residents pass it daily. Its name, Flying, refers to the horizontally depicted male figure the work represents. Geometric shapes are carved into the shelly limestone surface.

The statue stands on the lawn in front of the primary school on U Kříže street in Michálkovice, in the Ostrava-Pánev lowland of Upper Silesia. It is an outdoor work on a narrow plinth, so it can be walked around and seen from the street and school grounds.

The sculpture is made of shelly limestone, a sedimentary rock formed largely from fossil shell debris. Václav Uruba, who lived from 1928 to 1983, worked in the socialist realist style then required for public art, yet gave the figure a horizontal flying pose on a narrow plinth rather than an upright heroic stance.