Franz Kafka is one of the most important cultural personalities in the country. He was born and buried in Prague at the New Jewish Cemetery, which is now included in many tourist itineraries. There is a museum named in his honor in the building of the former factory. There are memorial plaques on his birth house. But the most unusual attraction dedicated to the legendary writer is a giant sculpture called the Head of Franz Kafka.

Like many unique sculptures in the Czech capital, the Head of Franz Kafka was made by the scandalous master David Cerny. It was installed at the entrance to the Quadrio shopping center. The grand opening of the public art object was timed to coincide with the opening of the shopping mall in 2014. Since then, hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting Prague have been eager to see the sculpture, as well as the shopping center. So the owner of Quadrio hardly regrets that he once invested in the project of the provocateur Cerny.

The Head of Franz Kafka, more than 10 meters high and weighing about 40 tons, is not a static object but a work of kinetic art. All of its 42 individual parts, made of mirrored stainless steel, rotate continuously at a speed of 6 revolutions per minute. This rotation creates the illusion of a "living" object that seems to invite viewers to guess the author's ideas.

The kinetic sculpture is put in motion by 21 engine modules and a kilometer of special cable, located inside the head and controlled remotely from the office in the shopping mall. There are several motion algorithms. Thus, the way tourists see the sculpture today will be completely different from the one they will see tomorrow. The author explains his idea by saying that he can only imagine the head of Kafka in motion: the writer's thoughts flashed at the speed of light, subsiding on pages and forming lines of his famous novels.