Franz Kafka - Rotating Head by David Cerny
Kinetic mirrored bust of forty-two independently rotating steel layers that assemble and dissolve a face on a forty-minute cycle.
This guide to the Franz Kafka Rotating Head in Prague introduces David Cerny's kinetic sculpture: forty-two mirror-polished steel slabs that assemble into the stern face of Prague-born writer Franz Kafka, then twist apart into a spinning column. You'll hear how Cerny unveiled the ten-and-a-half-metre sculpture above the Narodni trida metro station on Halloween night in 2014, funded by the developers of the Quadrio mall, and about the motors and cabling that drive its endless cycle. Cerny has offered little explanation beyond a wry line about owing an explanation only to himself.
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