Intriguing taxidermy/sculpture work by Peter Gronquist from The Death of Vivisect show at Gallery 1988.

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Oregon doğumlu Peter Gronquist’in geçen Mayıs ayında Los Angeles Gallery 1988’de gerçekleşen ‘Revolution Will Be Fabolous – Devrim Muhteşem Olacak’ sergisinde kendi tasarladığıVersace, Dior silahlar, Paul Smith kurşunlar, Gucci ve Fendi testereler, Louis Vuitton elektrikli sandalyesi, Burberry savaş tankı gibi parçaları sergilenmişti. Kendisiyle geçtiğimiz aylarda yapmış olduğum röportajı buradan okuyabilirsiniz.

OK…usually guns and brass knuckles are objects of destruction, but it seems lately they’ve been popping up everywhere in a more trendy attire! This is so ridiculous…it’s c00L.

Artist Peter Gronquist had a show of designer weapons called “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show”. The designer weapons included guns, semi-automatics, chain saws and rocket launchers clad in designer fabrics and adorned with luxury logos by Gucci, Hermes, Prada, D&G, Dior, Coach, Burberry, Fendi, Versace and Louis Vuitton.  One things for sure: They’re pretty damn cool. 

If you don’t know who Peter Gronquist is, I suggest checking out his site at petergronquist.com. Great artist. His work has appeared in BPM magazine and I have been hooked ever since. I only wish I had the time to fly out to San Fran to see his exhibit.

This is why I love his art…

This piece is from his show last year titled, The Revolution Will Be Fabulous.

If you are in the area of San Fran then go check out his exhibit. I leave with you my favorite quote that he gave for BPM…”I’m a victim of the rampant consumerism that I parody. It’s all very confusing.” –Peter Gronquist

The Revolution will be Fabulous!

Peter Gronquist’s show opened

at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

The Louis Vuitton chainsaw has sold.

The Revolution Will Be Fabulous!

Peter Gronquist’s show opened

at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

The Louis Vuitton chainsaw has Sold.

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Peter Gronquist (check out his website, which hilariously blasts Sid Vicious’ “My Way”) opened his solo show “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous” at LA’s Gallery 1988 this last weekend.� Reminiscent of Tom Sachs Chanel guillotine� and Prada toilet, the exhibit includes a Louis Vuitton Electric Chair, Paul Smith Artillery, and loads of designer guns.

Sadly, I was overbooked last weekend, and I’m out of town this weekend, so I’ll have to miss it.� But it you’re interested it runs til’ May 16.

Hey is Louis Vuitton going to sue him like they’re doing to Nadia Plesner?

–Valentina

We just came across some nice images of the Peter Gronquist Solo Show, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show”, that is going down at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

The artist presents blinged out faux-designer weaponry such as Paul Smith rockets, Louis Vuitton electric chairs and Pacman bombs. Some pieces look really nice and are well fabricated, such as the Louis Vuitton chair, others came off a little cheap, which does not really work if you enter this kind of art. Since he is working with high fashion branding, the pieces also have to look that way. Images via Notcot.

More images of the show after the jump.

A new show opened up the other night at Gallery 1988 in LA featuring weapons designed by Peter Gronquist…Pretty dope

Gallery 1988 presents:   Peter Gronquist “The Revolution will be fabulous”

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No, really this Louie V saw is part of Peter Gronquist’s solo exhibit “The Revolution will be Fabulous” now at Gallery 1988. Peep it if you’re around.

(Format Magazine)

New solo show by Peter Gronquist at Gallery 1988 in L.A., entitled The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show features artillery and arms decked out by your favorite luxury brands. Since Gronquist is not working with the luxury brands some of the construction is a little shaky. The political/social commentary is a little unclear but at the very least Gronquist’s work is amusing.

The show reminds me of the gas masks made by Diddo Velema in collaboration with Gucci and Louis Vuitton which were unveiled during the 2008 Bucharest luxury brand show.

There’s something about the classic hand grenade that thrills a designer’s heart. I was reminded of this fact by The Raw Feed’s post on a new grenade-shaped alarm clock:

The only way to silence it is by throwing it, which is exactly the opposite of what happens with a real grenade. There is an even better product when it comes to form vs. function and hand-held explosives: The grenade-shaped stress release thingie.

“The best and most alarming freebie was the Army’s squeezable hand grenade, illustrated above. When I saw the tempting display at the Army booth, I said “Ooh! Grenades!” and asked nicely for one – the soldier eyed me uncertainly, and said “It’s for stress reduction”. Oh, right – as if a grenade has to be squeezable for stress reduction purposes!“

Fortunately someone can up with an alarm more in keeping with the original metaphor:
“Ideal to get a teenager out of bed! Just pull the pin and throw your grenade into a room with it emitting a near-ear piercing siren. Before you know it they will be out of bed with the grenade in their hand to find you, ‘the pin holder’! Only the pin holder can switch it off!!”

While most grenade products are of this utilitarian sort, not all are. There is, for example, this to-die-for (figuratively) jewelry case. It would be the perfect home for two items previously documented here at CD. L’Oreal’s Flowerbomb perfume which was taken to be a terrorist threat at the Oslo airport and these oil lamps — just the thing to brighten up the home.

UPDATE: Allan Janus, source for the wonderful squeezable grenade, sent along the link to this amazing selection of weapons made of fine china by Charles Kraft:

But, as they say, that’s not all…

There’s also t’Zerah Grenade Actif Botanical Lifting Serum — which at $165 an ounce may be the most expensive grenade-inspired product on the market. “Made with 100% active botanical ingredients, Grenade Actif awakens the skin, toning and lifting with its proprietary mix of cooling aloe vera, firming marine algae, and nourishing plant oils and extracts including POMega5 pomegranate oil.” Not sure what that has to do with grenades … wait, here it is … it can be used for “fighting free radicals that damage and age the skin.” The White House will take a dozen.

The anti-aging serum is one of the few products to invoke a grenade that isn’t shaped like the classic U.S. WWII pineapple version. Others include the wood grenade, a log-splitter which probably gets its name from what it does rather than what it resembles.

There is also the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch plushie from the fine folks at Monty Python.

The only items I’ve found that resemble the grenades in use today are made by artists of one sort or another. There’s a wonderful sculpture by Peter Gronquist of Grenade as Pac Man. (Found at Iam8Bit.)

The amazing artist Anko at Squidsicle did these Louis Vuitton and Ducky Grenades in the modern mode.

The draw of the grenade as design feature is so strong that there really need be no connection between the product and package. For example, what worse shape could there be for something meant to spread wax on to snowboards or skis? Nothing, but so what?

A cigarette lighter? (Has anyone else noticed that cigarette lighters are becoming ubiquitous even as cigarette smoking declines?)

Or maybe just a toy that smokes cigarettes:

If all that is just too representational then how about something low-key & explosive on your wrist?

My favorite for a head-scratching mashup is this grenade-as-headphones beltbuckle.