Walking around the streets of Prague for a week can be both entertaining and overwhelming.Everything is walkable in this city and i must admit that Prague has really a great public transport system that allows even the most disoriented person find his locations, and that includes me.However, Prague has really some of the strangest , quirkiest and eye-catchy art creations installed all over the city, more like a rebellious city.I , personally did not expect it, but seeing them was quite cool, and left an outstanding impression to me.

I love art, yes, I do. But i leave the interpretations of it individually and private since after all, beauty or art interpretations depends on the viewer. So, speaking of David Černý, he popped up in my mind once I am doing a bit of reading about Prague. He´s quite famous Czech artist,very talented , knows his craft and also unique.His works totally captures our attention because of its sizes, forms and oddity.

First are these crawling babies. My daughter was totally ecstatic once she saw them. She seldom poses for pictures but in this one, she really had fun and find them “ cute“. At first I find them crazy, but eerr, no it´s not cute. Their face reminds me of a giant worm that sucks blood, you know that big leech that comes out from the grimy desert? It is scary, ugly and I am trying to understand why their faces are with bar code stamps.We saw these in the grounds of Kampa Museum after exploring Lesser town. These crawling “Babies” or Miminka in Czech were created by Czech artist David Černý seems to “dehumanized” the innocent reality of babies.They are substituted with number on their faces, totally stripping them of their own identity.

These Miminka babies measures 350 cm length and 260cm in height ,crawling the grounds of Kampa park while 10 others were installed in another location–in Žižkov TV  Tower. We´ve stayed in the 16th floor of Prague Towers and we´ve seen this TV tower everyday, we even see the babies from my big camera and they are insane.It´s look like a deliberate mocking figures!

Another statue is the one we´ve seen inside the Lucerna Passage which I actually considered as a hidden gem. The building itself was totally different from the Baroque,Gothic and Renaissance image of the Old town.The vibe of this place is really nice,it has a beautiful oreal stained windows in the mezzanine, an old fashioned Czech cinema, a classic ballroom and some unique shops.The architecture is really beautiful, with its art noveau style and domical skeleton roof.

We´ve passed through the Wenceslas Square almost everyday after btaking the metro exit in Muzeum so this statue is quite familiar to us.This time, Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia is riding on a dead horse.

This statue is supposed to be placed inside the main post office building but then decided to be relocated to Lucerna Palace because “It is too much“.I think every visitor in Prague knows this statue since it is really famous for its quirkiness.As for the upside down horse, we have our own interpretation as to why it is like that.Simply out of the ordinary indeed.

As we walked further, we came across another famous figure in Czech Republic. I have heard his name before but I never imagined that Franz Kafka was a Czech.While walking through many shops, I always see his face.Franz Kafka was a German language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague.

A revolving steel plate -face seemed more like a modern thing but still,people swarmed around it and waited for hours just to watch his face aligned.We stand there for a few minutes and go because for me, it is just something to see while we´re passing by. Never seen anything like it before but still a great thing to see it while we made a quick snack and WC break in the mall nearby.It stands 11 meters tall (36 ft) and is located outside the Quadrio Shopping Centre in New Town.The mirrored sculpture is made up of 42 perpetually rotating panels. The panels move for about 1-2 minutes before pausing to retain the shape of the author’s head. Each panel moves independently and can be programmed to randomize the sculpture’s movements.

Franz Kafka was said to have been plagued by self-doubt and depression all his life and dubbed as Hunger artist while he died from Tuberculosis in June 1924.This perpetually rotating sculpture of his head aims to reflect the turmoil of his psyche.

He had a long list of more intriguing artworks all over Prague.No doubt, he is the rock star artist of Czech Republic.Too bad I wasn´t able to see them all.Or probably missed it along the way the time we were exploring the city. Nevertheless, it was a great experience seeing such things and that´s what traveling is all about.If I haven´t been to Prague then I woudn´t be able to know anything about Franz Kafka, his Piss statues, Hanging man, Embryo,Brown Nosers and the giant spitfire -quirky purple Butterfly i´ve seen on the walls of the Máj department store.

We had fun looking for these sights and helped us to get to know more deeply Prague outside the traditional Old Town and Charles Bridge.Thank God we have Googlemaps to help us!

Anyway, have anyone of you seen the Dancing House in Prague?

Until then,Tschüß!