Seven metres high on thin segmented legs in ragged stainless steel and iron, stands Kaddish (1967-68): a vast, torn sunflower of exploding metal. Like the harsh and metaphysically ecstatic language of the liturgical Kaddish – the Jewish prayer for the dead – Vesely´s monument is exclamatory and radiant. There is anguish in its stressed, disintegrating mass and dry, spiny texture. But the rhetorical content is balanced by exuberant self-confidence and sheer aesthetic daring.