David Černý

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David Černý

David Černý (born December 15, 1967 in Prague ) is a Czech sculptor .

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Quo Vadis , German Embassy in Prague

He made some well-known sculptures in Prague , such as the crawling toddlers on the pillars of the TV tower and St. Wenceslas sitting on the belly of a horse hanging upside down in the Lucerna Passage, a parody of the equestrian statue on Wenceslas Square .

The sculpture Quo Vadis , which depicts a Trabant with four legs, also comes from Černý . With this sculpture, Černý paid tribute to the events of September 1989, when thousands of GDR citizens fled to the German embassy in Prague , leaving their Trabants behind in Prague. The original of the sculpture is now in the collection of the Contemporary History Forum in Leipzig , and a copy is in the park of the German embassy in Prague.

On the occasion of the Czech EU Council Presidency in 2009 , Černý created the installation Entropa , which depicts prejudices against the individual EU members. This triggered indignation in several countries, especially in Bulgaria , whose outlines were depicted in the form of a squat toilet.

Beyond the Czech Republic, his art has spread internationally in London and Blankenberge (Belgium).

The former Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, Karel Schwarzenberg , said in an article for the Metropolis magazine , which is broadcast on the cultural channel arte , that he had known few artists in life who were not in the opposition; Černý is no exception.


  • “Saint Wenceslas on the dead horse” in the Lucerna Passage in Prague

  • “Hanging out Sigmund Freud ” in an alley in Prague's old town

  • "Miminka" ("Babies") at the Prague TV Tower

  • Detail of one of the babies

  • Toddler at the Kampa Museum in Prague

  • "Festival of the Giants", bus stop in Liberec (Reichenberg)

  • “Stinkefinger”, floating platform in the Vltava, Prague 2013

  • "Piss" (Czech: Čůrající postavy, "worrying characters"). Men urinating on the Czech Republic in the courtyard of the Kafka Museum in Prague

  • "Metalmorphosis" by Franz Kafka in Prague

  • “London Booster” in front of the Czech House in London

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://newsv1.orf.at/090114-33843/?href=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsv1.orf.at%2F090114-33843%2F33844txt_story.html
  2. ↑ Casino. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Metropolis from July 4th, 2009 at 10:50 p.m. (ARTE / HR)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv  

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SURNAME Černý, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague