Take all the weapons to the moon
Heywood, Anthony (2012) Take all the weapons to the moon. [Exhibition/show, Public art, Sculpture, Site-specific work]
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Anthony Heywood was invited along with 14 other international artists to participate in the Peace Monuments of War Material International Sculpture Symposium 2012, in Arboga, Sweden. The brief was to create peace monuments out of old war materials.
The work was three years in the planning and the finished sculpture is constructed out of a Russian fighter jet (MIG 21), and a British Merlin Rolls Royce engine. The resulting work was suspended from a crane over the river Arboga.
"I wanted the work to express the vulnerability of life and to remind all levels of community that something so iconic and powerful can also evoke fragility, which is why I chose to site it precariously above the water from a crane."
Works from the 2012 symposium will be sited in a permanent sculpture park, that opens at Arboga, Sweden, 24 May 2014.
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