在亚利桑那州,州长签署了一项命令,禁止销毁没收或上交的枪支。一个解决办法是:把它们变成艺术。
‘Gun Sculpture’ by Canadian artists Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendal makes the secret life of weapons visible. Standing at 8′ x 12′ x 8′, and weighing 5 tons, the rectangular structure is a monstrous aggregate of over 7000 deactivated weapons, including handguns, AK47s, rifles, landmines, and ammunition.www.gunsculpture.com
Gun Sculpturecan be entered and evokes the constriction of a prison cell, its interior is lined with panels of steel mesh, while the floor is a mosaic of flattened weapons set into concrete tiles.www.gunsculpture.com
Detail of ‘Gun Sculpture’.www.gunsculpture.com
Cathedral. Artist Al Farrow combined religious imagery with guns, ammunition and bombs in his series, ‘Reliquaries’. The sculptures are an ironic play on the medieval cult of the relic as well as a statement about continued ties between war and religion. Represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.www.alfarrow.com
由枪支、弹药和炸弹部件组成的犹太教堂。艾尔法罗。www.alfarrow.com
Mosque made of guns, ammunition and bomb parts. By Al Farrow.www.alfarrow.com
生命之树是由四个莫桑比克艺术家制作的:Cristovao Canhavato (Kester), Hilario Nhatugueja, Fiel dos Santos和Adelino Serafim Maté。它是武器转化为工具(TAE)项目的产品,由退役武器制成。
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During Mozambique’s civil war, which lasted from 1976 to 1992, millions of guns and other weapons poured into the country and many of them were hidden or buried in the bush. The project is an attempt to eliminate the threat presented by the hidden weapons. Mozambicans are encouraged to hand over weapons in exchange for items like ploughs, bicycles and sewing machines. In one case a whole village gave up its weapons in exchange for a tractor.britishmuseum.org
《武器王座》是莫桑比克艺术家克里斯托沃·坎哈瓦托(凯斯特)用1992年内战结束后收集的武器制作的。在非洲,大多数人都坐在凳子上,但部落首领、王子和国王则坐在礼仪用的椅子上。“将武器转化为工具”组织提供了退役武器。这些枪支主要是AK-47突击步枪,在葡萄牙、东欧和朝鲜生产。椅子的扶手是由苏联ak47制成的。用于形成靠背的H&K G3步枪是在德国设计、葡萄牙制造的。椅子的前面是朝鲜制造的AKM步枪和一支PPSh-43冲锋枪,椅子上的武器是波兰和捷克斯洛伐克制造的。en.wikipedia.org
Image Performance. 50 musical instruments made from destroyed weapons by Pedro Reyes. The Mexican government gave Pedro Reyes 6700 weapons, cut into parts and rendered useless, but to an artist. Reyes is also involved in a campaign where residents hand over their guns in exchange for a coupon which they can then use to buy electronics, garden tools or household appliances.www.pedroreyes.net
50种由被摧毁的武器制成的乐器之一。The Mexican government gave Pedro Reyes 6700 weapons, cut into parts and rendered useless, but to an artist.www.pedroreyes.net
Disarm is the second generation of instruments built after Imagine (2012), also using the remnants of weapons that the Mexican army had collected and destroyed. The second series is made up of eight instruments that were created in collaboration with a team of musicians and Cocolab, a media studio in Mexico City. These machines are mechanical musical instruments; they can be programmed and operated via computers, making them capable of performing music concerts with compositions prepared beforehand. Reyes acknowledges: “It’s important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons, as if a sort of exorcism was taking place,” in the description of his project, “Disarm.”www.pedroreyes.net
Gun Sculpture
Loaded Menorah“ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out”
Weapons courtesy Good4Guns Anti-violence Coalition, City of Pittsburgh, PA.
By Boris Bally,www.borisbally.com
Palas Por Pistolas is a world-wide campaign to make communities safer. Their mission is to turn weapons into shovels to plant trees. For every weapon that is destroyed one tree is planted. In their first campaign in Culiacán, a city in western Mexico, 1527 guns were melted and made into 1527 shovels to plant 1527 trees. This successful experience lead the way to replicate the project in Ciudad Juarez and they are currently molding 6700 shovels and in the process of planting 6700 trees in bi-national plantings through 2013.palasporpistolas.org
“Don’t Touch” AK-47 by Nancy Fouts.
From the The AKA Peace Exhibition, UK.peaceoneday.org
“Where Souls Dwell” AK-47 by Laila Shawa.
From the The AKA Peace Exhibition, UK.peaceoneday.org
Excessive Force by Krystopher Sapp.
Built on a PPS 43 Submachine gun “theater: WWII & Korean War”
© Krystopher Sapp andLa Luz de Jesus Gallery.
Gun Rack by Liu Bolin,
known as the “Invisible Man”
AtEli Klein Fine Art, NY.
Video:vimeo.com
Gun wall sculpture, made from discarded machine guns, rifles and pistols. In Pula, Croatia.mikeenz.files.wordpress.com
托莱达诺的《希望与恐惧系列》。
“Hope & Fear is the external manifestation of internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in contemporary American society. What are we afraid of? What do we love? How does our society function, and what does it worship?”www.mrtoledano.com
GUN series #3, 37 x 17 x 16 inches, welded gun remnants by Victor Hugo Zayas. The metal used to make the sculptures comes from 2.24 tons of guns confiscated and shredded by LAPD. Some were used in crimes, some were found in search warrants, some were illegally owned. After the shredding, the Police made sure no workable parts remained and then turned over the pieces to Mr. Zayas.victorhugozayas.net
经过30年的战争,柬埔寨政府丢弃了超过12.5万件武器。2003年11月,雕塑家萨沙·康斯特布尔在柬埔寨和平艺术项目(PAPC)中使用这些枪支创作家具和雕塑。sashaconstable.co.uk
Gun bike by Kea. Over 125,000 weapons were discarded by the Cambodian government after 30 years of war. The Peace Art Project Cambodia (PAPC) continues to create art, tools and furniture from the decommisioned weapons.sashaconstable.co.uk
The Peace Art Project Cambodia utilized weapons seized from a Khmer Rouge weapons cache. Over 125,000 weapons were discarded by the Cambodian government after 30 years of war. The guns were used to create furniture and sculptures.sashaconstable.co.uk
大卫·帕默用空弹壳来画人像。在制作了一个巨大的外壳画布后,他用喷灯进行着色和加深。bulletproof2011.com
“防弹背心”,2005年。
By Ross Rodriguez
30 Caliber Rifle Shells.
www.artfromthesoul.com
非暴力雕塑,马尔默,瑞典。
By Carl Frederik Reuterswärd, born 1934.
en.wikipedia.org
Stop the Violence series by Francois Robert.francoisrobertphotography.com
“为什么这个世界上会有饥饿的人?为什么这个世界会出现药物短缺?然而,用于军备目的的资金数额几乎是立即可用的,这是惊人的,我想说令人震惊。”
“我觉得我应该成为塑造和平的一部分。当然,我们在《弥迦书》和《以赛亚书》中也发现,他们会化剑为犁,人们会坐在树下,没有什么能吓到他们。”英国国教主教迪尼斯·斯库拉内。“Episode 98 – Throne of Weapons – transcript”.A History of the World in 100 Objects. BBC, October, 2010.
“Harm Less”
Plant Parts by Sonia Rentsch,www.soniarentsch.com
Anonymoussays
Clever ideas
Cindy (Sillaway) Millersays
This is amazing!
Stevensays
This is a terrible commentary and complete misunderstanding of firearms. Individual defense tools play a vital and needed role in the freedom of the individual against oppressive forces – study history unless you desire to repeat it with closed minded thinking like this. Empowerment over oppression any day.
NOYBsays
This is not art. Destroying firearms – which George Washington referred to as the American people’s ‘Liberty Teeth’ – is a stench in God’s nostrils. Guns are good, in the hands of good people, and there are most certainly more good people than bad in the world. These monstrosities of perversion showing destroyed firearms are a terrible tragedy and sick minds of gun-haters.
Reasonable Enoughsays
I’ll cling to my (functional) guns, thank you.
Chrissays
This is a sad travesty, why ? because to have the ability to defend ones person from those who wish to harm you is naive in the extreme, lets experiment shall we ? disarm all people who are not military or Police world wide shall and see what happens shall we ? ( oooops gee I forgot that’s happening now isn’t it ? )
J.S.says
让妄想症小蛋糕在阳光下享受他们的艺术时刻。何必浪费时间争论呢?We’re not going to alter their pathetic, simpering worldview.
Reality will take care of that.
Yay, reality.
LaMichigansays
A new creation for something that is normally used for destruction, very profound. As a hunter and gun enthusiast, I can appreciate the beauty and creep factor of these Art instillations.
Marciasays
I find the negative remarks disturbing, ill informed, chilling. Those who created these works and those of us who appreciate them are not ‘delusional cupcakes.’ The ‘terrible commentary’ comes from those who don’t understand the message here. Those campaigning for gun control don’t want to take away everyone’s guns. We simply hope that some sensible control might save even one life. My father was shot to death, and I’m far from delusional!
Geoffrey Smithsays
Great works of art here. Surprising that it’s stirring up controversy in the comments. I’m amazed at how scared people are. These aren’t guns for hunting – they’re guns for killing people. ‘Don’t make art outa guns – kill someone with it!’
A. Ridingsays
The gaping flaw in the artist’s renderings of what our nation should look like: The guns need to be pointing inward and outward. Side to Side is ridiculous and almost useless for National and Home defense.
我们现在知道,仅仅用枪支来建造我们国家的边境墙是不够的。我们需要用能让入侵者或国内敌人三思而行的高能武器来加固我们所有建筑的墙壁……2022世界杯四强亚盘赔率It doesn’t matter how many of us have to die to take out suicide bombers before they get the satisfaction of exploding … we need to pull the trigger first … let it be our own American gun walls and ceilings filling all our purple hearts with the leaden glory of victory.