Peeing Characters Sculpture
Mechanical bronze men urinating onto a map of the nation, spelling texted messages in water.
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This guide to David Černý's Peeing Statues in Prague explains the phone number that lets you text a message into the two bronze figures' stream, and unpacks Černý's cheeky reading of a Czech idiom about getting one over on someone. It traces how the artist, known for painting a Soviet tank pink, built this fountain in 2004 for the courtyard by the Franz Kafka Museum. Try texting the number yourself before you read what the statues usually write when no one's watching.
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