When nature KILLS: Artist Christopher Schulz has created a series of polished stainless steel sculptures of guns shaped like sharks. RAR. They don’t actually shoot, but i’m sure some clever criminal can jimmy-rig one for me so I can be the mad supervillain of my dreams. WATCH OUT, AQUAMAN! TIDEMASTER JAMES IS COMING FOR YOU! Bwahahaha
From top to bottom: Leopard AR, Tiger MG3, Blue AK, White Tip Uzzi, and a Raygun (GET IT?).
From artsy: [Schulz's sculptures] are ironic, hybrid objects that conflate sharks and firearms. Lethal and gleaming, they are cast in marine-grade stainless steel, a high quality material known to maintain a glossy finish over time. There is a softness to the contouring of the figures, which lends a futuristic, sci-fi feel to the works—almost as though we are witnessing a gun transform into a shark—while their polished surfaces reflect the environment around them, contributing to their slippery allure.
Though somewhat absurd in concept, the visual correlation between these two objects makes for surprisingly poignant works; the fins of the shark align like the sights on a rifle barrel and, just as these alpha predators dominate their territory, so do those who wield weapons. Whereas the shark’s nature grants it a position of power, though, the gun operator claims control by triumphing over nature.
Each work is moderate in scale, like Blue AK (2013), which, at just under four feet in length, is the size of a small shark. The larger Tiger MG3 is slightly more imposing, measuring close to six feet in length—still small enough to maintain a sort of preciousness that might be lost on grander proportions. Possessing tremendous magnetism, Schulz’s fierce forms draw viewers in, irresistibly. Invoking two entities that inspire awe and fear, and merging them into one form, Schulz asks what the future may hold in a world where nature seems increasingly subject to our urge for control.
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