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METALmorphosis is a large (7 meters; weighing 13 tons) kinetic sculpture of a human head, by Czech artist David Černý. The sculpture is in the Whitehall Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it was inaugurated in 2007, and it sits in a large reflecting pool.[1]

The piece is executed in polished stainless steel. The sculpture is made of 40 layers articulated into 7 pieces that can rotate individually. Originally, the sculpture could spout water from the head's mouth. A later and larger work, Head of Franz Kafka (Czech: Hlava Franze Kafky), a bust of Franz Kafka made of 45 tons of steel, is in Prague.[2]

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  1. Velinger, Jan (25 September 2007). "New David Cerny sculpture, Metalmorphosis, unveiled in Charlotte". Radio Prague.
  2. Chan, Casey (24 October 2011). "A Giant spinning Human Head Water Fountain is oddly mesmerizing". gizmodo.com.
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