Before us stands a mythical creature – the centaur.

In the myths of ancient Greece, centaurs were depicted as beings that were half-human, half-horse.

The title Awakening marks the moment of transformation – the animal becoming human. Soon after the sculpture was installed in 1979, the centaur’s head was stolen. For thirty years, it stood headless, until sculptor Algirdas Bosas carved a new one, the head you see today. The original version was small, mounted on a metal rod. The current head is massive, carved not from grey granite like the body, but from red granite.

The striking colour and scale of the head intensify the sculptor’s idea: the awakening of the human being as a thinking creature.