Incredible religious building sculptures made from guns and bullets
If you thought the Caliber .223 chess set made from steel and bullet shell casings was cool, you better need to check out the stunning religious building sculptures by San Francisco-based sculptor Al Farrow. The artist uses bullets, gun parts, steel, glass and bone to create these models and express his views toward religion. One of his most recent and Farrow’s most ambitious works is the Bombed Mosque, 780-pound sculpture made from 50,000 bullets.
Al Farrow’s exhibition of reliquaries, religious ritual objects, and religious architecture builds on his exploration of religious history and violence. Developed from his interest in reliquaries, Farrow has rendered architectural replicas in the form of mosques, synagogues, and churches. His choice of sculptural materials include deconstructed guns, bullets, glass, steel, bone and found objects from antiquity, such as a vintage Torah cover and pieces of 16th century Italian velvet.
Farrow’s unsettling juxtaposition of content—symbolic religious structures with weaponry and history-laden found objects—is both visually stunning and emotionally confounding. Al Farrow’s New Reliquaries send a strong message for peace, and are are currently being exhibited at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.
Pricing Details:
1. Bombed Mosque (2010) - $250,000
2. Revelation II, 2010 - $100,000
3. Synagogue III, 2010 - $85,000
4. Mosque III (after National Mosque of Nigeria), 2010 - $75,000
5. Skull of Santo Guerro (II), 2011 - $45,000
6. Casket Reliquary III (Foot of Santo Guerro), 2011 - $25,000
7. Menorah (Fence I), 2011 - $12,000
8. Casket Reliquary II (2011) - $10,000
Thanks, Al Farrow & Catharine Clark for the updates
