David Černý is a Czech sculptor whose works can be seen in many locations in Prague. His works tend to be controversial.
One of Černý's conspicuous contributions to Prague are the "Tower Babies," a series of cast figures of crawling infants attached to Žižkov TV Tower. Currently three of these Babies are crawling around Kampa park along the Vltava (pictured above). There are to be there, captured in animate crawl, until Spring 2009.
(David Černý, Babies, park Kampa, podzim 2008 - jaro 2009 Tři bronzové sochy Babies umělce Davida Černého budou nainstalovány v parku blízko Sovových mlýnů)
Černý gained notoriety in 1991 by painting a Soviet tank, PINK, as it was on station in central Prague serving as a war memorial to Soviet Tank Crews( even though Communism had fallen in 1989). As this Monument to the Soviet tanks crews was still a national cultural monument at that time, his act of civil disobedience was considered "hooliganism" and he was briefly arrested.
He has many artistic works around Prague, from the Babies on the TV tower, to a man hanging by one hand over a street in centrum(don't have a picture of this yet), an upside down horse with it’s rider Vaclav IV( see this blog dated 30 May 08) as well as two Bronze nude male figures “peeing” out the outline of the boundaries of the Czech Republic map into a fountain not far from Kampa Park(Need to get this picture as well).
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