Dancing Czech to Czech
by Juli Scalzi
Title
Dancing Czech to Czech
Artist
Juli Scalzi
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Dancing house building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic. Also known as the "Fred and Ginger" house.
Vertical view of a modern building with daring, curvy outlines. Fred, a masculine cylinder of concrete, stretches up and out, simultaneously leading the rest of the building into the abutting intersection and serving as an anchor for Fred's show-stealing partner. The distorted cylinder is topped by a bird's-nest-shaped mesh sculpture named "Medusa."
Ginger, a feminine frame cinched at the waist and wrapped in a billowing glass dress, angles away from Fred in several directions at once, her spindly concrete legs poking through her dress and planting themselves aggressively along the very edge of the street. Dynamic and anthropomorphic, Ginger reflects Mr. Gehry's evolved interpretation of Mr. Miluni's revolutionary female form. This graceful piece of sculpture is also fully functional: The tower plays host to several levels of conference rooms, along with a restaurant and bar on the top two floors that provide expansive views of the Vltava.
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December 15th, 2015
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