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Skull Fragment of Heilige Krieg (from the Reliquary series)
Sculpture

1996
59 x 27 x 27 in. (149.86 x 68.58 x 68.58 cm)

Al Farrow (Brooklyn, New York, 1943 - )

Object Type: Sculpture

Medium and Support: Steel, gun parts, bullets, casting resin, bone, piece of Berlin Wall, Nazi gas valve

Credit Line: Gift of Leslie Crockett

Accession Number: 2005.36

Exhibition

Divine Ammunition: The Sculpture of Al Farrow, October 11, 2015 - January 3, 2016, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA.

Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, November 20, 2005 - March 5, 2006, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art. Circulated to: Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington, DC, April 9-July 29, 2006.

SJMA Label Text

Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement (2005-2006)

Al Farrow uses found objects to create sculptures that he refers to as reliquaries, which examine the relationship between war and religion. Skull Fragment of Heilige Krieg—or Holy War—combines old weaponry arranged in the form of a Nazi swastika. An original piece of the Berlin Wall and a human skull fragment are positioned over an authentic gas valve from a Nazi concentration camp. According to Farrow, "the atrocities committed in acts of war absolutely violate every tenet of religion, yet rarely do religious institutions speak against the violations committed in the name of God."

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