David Černý's Prague, strange art hiding in plain sight
David Černý's sculptures are scattered across Prague like a running joke the city never fully explains. They are provocative, absurd and extremely difficult to walk past without stopping.
Start with the kinetic Head of Franz Kafka beside Quadrio: forty-two moving stainless-steel layers repeatedly break apart and reform the writer's face. In Lucerna passage, Černý's Horse hangs upside down with St Wenceslas sitting calmly on its belly — a mischievous answer to the grand equestrian monument nearby.
Cross towards Malá Strana for the Proudy, or Peeing Figures, and bronze Babies beside Museum Kampa. Further afield, the babies on Žižkov Television Tower and monumental Lilith in Karlín show how the artist has effectively turned the whole city into his gallery.
