David Černý’s new artwork soon to be unveiled in Prague

Two giant butterflies made from Spitfire aircraft fuselages are being installed on the Máj department store in the centre of Prague, which will soon reopen to the public after a 2-year-reconstruction. The giant art sculptures are the work of artist David Černý, who has many unusual art pieces around Prague. His latest work has come under fire from the Club for Old Prague which claims that the purple-and-turquoise butterflies are kitsch. Černý has fiercely defended them, countering that Spitfires are the most beautiful symbol of the fight for freedom and it is symbolic that they will appear on a building on Narodni trida where communist police cracked down on a student demonstration in 1989 sparking the Velvet Revolution which brought down the communist regime. The unveiling of the art work is highly anticipated.