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Prague is one of the most beautiful and photographed cities in the world. This is right. Prague Castle, Old Town Hall, Charles Bridge, Dancing House, and from October 2022, a unique Fragment House. The shape of the house resembles a reclining figure, supported by three statues in the shape of a hand, foot and woman.
The dominant feature of the entire building is a giant statue of Lilith. The steel colossus, 24 meters high and weighing 35 tons, designed by David Černý, the prince of horror of the Czech art scene, stands in the center of Karlín, the famous gastronomic district of Prague.
Three statues supporting the house draw attention to the fact that a person needs a community of other people to live, symbolize solidarity and figuratively depict the cells that make up the human body. In this way, the fragment pays homage to the nearby Les Invalides, built in 1737 by the architect Kilian Dientzenhofer and modeled after the Les Invalides in Paris for war veterans.
Three statues with a total weight of 60 tons are made of stainless steel with a mirror polished surface. The largest statue of a woman, Lilith, always turns her head 180° after midnight. Some critics say the work is too sexist. David Cherny denies this, saying that the statue symbolizes the first woman who challenged the biblical Adam, and thus represents female emancipation.
David Černý: A rock star of the Czech art scene?
Known for his many artistic provocations and controversies, the artist is described by critics as a rock star in the Czech art scene. He is best known for his Entropa, which he created on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the EU in 2009. The work is a provocative representation of the states of Europe. You can see it at Techmania in Pilsen. In the 1990s, he attracted attention with a sculpture of Trabant on legs, symbolizing the exodus of East Germans, which appeared on the Old Town Square in Prague. He caused a big scandal by painting the pink color of the Soviet T-34 tank, which he used in protest against the Russian invasion of Georgia, following the example of the legendary Lady Punk. During the London Olympics, he provoked with the London Booster, a double-decker bus in the shape of an athlete doing push-ups. Other notable works include his kinetic head of Franz Kafka in front of the Quadrio shopping center on Prague's Narodna Street and Babies adorning the Zizkov TV Tower.
