"Butterfly Effect" by David Černý, 2024
Obchodní dům Máj
Národní, Nové Město
Prague, September 2024
“Freedom is a delicate thing so what could be more delicate than the wings of a butterfly. Combine them together and you have two Spitfire Butterflies. These are big. A 9 metre long Spitfire fuselage with two 10 metre long wings overlaps 3 floors of the building, if you laid it in the adjacent roads it would reach both sides. In his own words, the creator David Černý describes the Spitfire Butterflies as being in honour of Czech pilots who fought in the British RAF and Army Air Corp. The sculptures also include the wheels and there’s a pilot in the cockpit. It may be accidental but the main street where the Spitfire Butterflies are located just happens to be the site of the student protest which triggered the Velvet Revolution and the end of communist rule and contains the city memorial for the 'Fight for Freedom and Against Tyranny'.” (Spitfire Butterflies, Living Prague)
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