Localisation: náměstí Přemysla Otakara II
The sculpture consists of two large, rusty, metal forms set opposite each other. Both have a structure similar to industrial tanks. At first glance, they bring to mind post-industrial objects, machines or small silos. Only their tilt, circular openings and the title of the work may direct associations towards two figures in visors. The objects are placed on the corner of an Old Town square. They are quite tall, reaching up to the third storey of the townhouses.
Both objects are visually very similar. They are made and compositionally organised in the same way, but set opposite each other, as if in a mirror image. The distance between their bases is about 3 metres.
They are made of metal in a dark, rusty-brown colour. The surface is matt. There are vertical streaks, discolourations, traces of corrosion and irregular stains on it. The colour shifts from dark brown through the reddish shade of rust to almost black streaks.
Each form stands on short, straight legs. The legs are metal, cylindrical, set vertically and finished with flat feet. They do not form a high pedestal, but only raise the lower parts of the object slightly above the ground, like the supports of a technical tank.
Both objects are large cylinders, about 2 metres wide, with rounded ends on both sides. Their surfaces are not smooth. They have regularly repeated joints and welds. More or less at two thirds of the height of each cylinder there is a significant break. The form of the cylinder bends forwards and then returns in the opposite direction, creating in the cylinder a bend with a triangular shape in cross-section. The upper part of the cylinders is at a slight angle, opposite to the direction of the bend described a moment earlier. The upper ends of the cylinders are rounded. The ends are not parallel to the ground; they continue the angle of the upper part of the sculptures. In the centre of each top there are short vertical pipes.
The previously described bend of the cylinder means that it may remind people of a strongly simplified form of a visor with a conical bulge that would protect the face. The upper parts of both cylinders are inclined towards the centre. The left object tilts to the right, the right one to the left. Their protruding, broken parts are opposite each other, as if two heavy forms were turning towards one another. One of the objects has the break slightly higher than the other. This makes the arrangement of the forms more dynamic and breaks their symmetry.
The impression that these are representations of visors is strengthened by the circular objects located in the upper parts of the cylinders – placed like eye openings in a visor.
One of the objects has circular openings in its upper part, in which three-bladed elements resembling fan propellers have been placed. The eyes of the other are formed by slightly convex, flat bowls with a small opening in their centre.
In each of the objects, at different heights, though most numerous in the lower parts, there are other circular openings. Some of them are slightly larger and reveal the darkened interiors of the cylinders. But in one place, at the eye level of an adult, one cylinder has openings right through it. This means that through a narrow window, one can see what is on the other side of the rusty construction.