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This exhibition on the life and work of Prague’s most famous literary son, entitled ‘City of K’, is the third in a series of exhibitions about world writers and their cities. It explores the intimate relationship between the writer and the city that shaped him through the media of documents, photography and video.
Read more: Lonely Planet
The fountain in the courtyard of the Franz Kafka Museum in the Lesser Quarter, is created by artist David Černý. Two urinating men stand opposite one another above a lake in the shape of the Czech Republic. An electronic device turns their hips and raises their penises in a way that the flow of water traces the letters of several quotes on the water’s surface. But since Kafka wrote in German I’m afraid that aspect of the fountain passed me by.
I find it very amusing, but I’m sure some people are extremely shocked when they suddenly find themselves face to face with this – what do you think?
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Weird. I fall into the “wouldn’t want it in my front yard” camp. Nor my back yard! (if I had either)
Definitely a ‘Marmite’ work of art (or perhaps that should be Vegemite for you) 😉
Who thinks up the designs for these fountains, and who approves them? I find it moderately humorous if somewhat baffling. I definitely would have taken a picture … perhaps a video would have been fitting …
Video! Now why didn’t I think of that!