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UP IN ARMS


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UP IN ARMS

March 1 - April 7, 2003

Carmen Alvarado, Andisheh Avini, Chris Burden, Bill Burns, Jacques Flèchemuller, Susan Graham, Charles Krafft, Tim Laun, Claire Lieberman, Philippe Meste, Kurt Novak, Donald O'Finn, Sylvie Réno, Samuel Rousseau, Casey Ruble, Tom Sachs and Peter Zangrillo

Up in Arms was an exhibition of weapons made by artists. It also coincided with the Armory Show, as well as the invasion of Iraq by the USA. Chosen artists primarily presented objects that are representations of various guns, bombs, grenades and small artillery, made from materials as diverse as wax, chocolate, porcelain, sugar, foam-core, newspaper, glass, cardboard, styrofoam, etc.

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View of the exhibition Up in Arms, 2004


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From left to right, Sylvie Réno, Les instruments du pouvoir (Instruments of power), 2002, cardboard, adhesive, blister pack and Heckler & Koch PSP, 2003, cardboard, adhesive


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Carmen Alvarado, Sweet Surrender, 2003, chocolate


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Peter Zangrillo, M16 Holster, 2003, leather, rush, metal, Handguns 1-6, 2000, sugar, resin, epoxy, enamel, sequins, paint


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Casey Ruble, Except in Struggle, There is no more Beauty, 2002, cardboard, gouache, fusewire, gunpowder


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Bill Burns, Chocolate Hand Grenades, Selection Box #2: The Potato Masher, 1987-1995


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Tom Sachs, Shot Book - Theory of Relativity, 1996, book, wire, plexi


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View of the exhibition Up in Arms, 2004


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Tim Laun, Untitled,1999, wax and pigment


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Susan Graham, Approximation-Remington 45 Pistol, 2001, sugar, egg whites, resin, wood, paint, plexi


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Philippe Meste, Military Position, 1994, video stil, video, edition of 3


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Claire Lieberman, Crystal Pistol Pump Gun, 2002, Crystal Swan Gun, 2002, Crystal Ice Gun (Western), 1999


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Samuel Rousseau, Feliz Kalashnikov 1-3, 2002


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Jacques Flèchemuller, Brownsville, 7/20/1986, 2003, Dublin, 04/09/1974 , 2003, Beirut 7/20/1986, 2003, San Antonio, 02/11/1987, 2003


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Donald O'Finn, Kids, 2003, video still, video, edition of 10


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Charles Krafft, Von Dutch Smith and Wesson, 2003, porcelain


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Andisheh Avini, untitled #3, 2003, acrylic on wood


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Kurt Novak, Bazooka, 2003, newspaper, resin, metal and M4 carbine, 2003


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Chris Burden, 747, 1973, black and white photograph, edition of 5


Artists:

Tim Laun
Samuel Rousseau


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