Call it pacifist kitsch. Charles Krafft's Porcelain War Museum Project is a collection of life-size small arms fashioned in the style of 17th-century delft ceramics. The cache of blue-and-white-glazed weaponry includes grenades, knives, AK-47s, and pistols slip-cast and then hand-painted with dainty designs reminiscent of Central European folk art.
"I'm assembling an arsenal of symbols," says the Seattle artist, who saw the effects of the Balkan War firsthand while working in Slovenia on an artist's grant. Krafft's "assault on form and function" will be on display at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center (www.spiral.org) April 8 through June 11; visit his Web site at www.booksatoz.com/artatoz/krafft.
ELECTRIC WORD
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Test of Time
Every Breath You Take
Urban Flight
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The Art of War
