Video: Pacifist installation by Ole Ukena
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The hippie motto "Peace, Love and Rock 'N' Roll" has spread throughout the world in the 20th century, and the pacifist icon has become perhaps the most famous call for good. The modern artist Ole Ukena, for this he created an installation with a symbolic name "In the Absence of War".
The installation is a massive diptych, each of its parts is an impromptu battlefield on which toy soldiers are located. In total, there are 20 thousand fighters ready to go on the attack from minute to minute. Two parts of the installation form a classic pacific sign, which prompts reflections on the ambiguity of the armed peacekeeping operations that are constantly being carried out in different parts of the world.
The dimensions of the installation are impressive: the "painting" is more than three meters long and one and a half meters wide. If you come close to it, then everything looks like an ordinary battle scene, but if you step further away, the author's intention is already clear, the subtle irony of Ole Ukena about the struggle for peace waged by different peoples. True, there may be another version of reading this controversial creation: violence as the goal of any war, veiled under idealistic and humanistic goals.
The installation by Ole Ukena is not the only pacifist project in which toy warriors are the protagonists. Suffice it to recall the sports soldiers Toy Boarders, who play sports, not war, and the crippled plastic fighters in Project Dorothy. In all these projects, the toy truth of the war turns out to be completely unsightly, so there is a hope that the younger generation will not want to take up arms.
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