Stop the Violence

Francois Robert was at an auction in rural Michigan. It was the mid 1990s. A school was selling off supplies, and Robert was looking to buy some furniture for his studio. "I was interested in buying some lockers, and they had three for $50." Two of the lockers were empty, but not the third. When Robert opened it up, he found a human skeleton.


This increadible bone art by Francois Robert portrays the different iconic representation of weapons and religion.  Robert’s collection of bone art, titled “Stop the Violence”, uses human bones to recreate guns, grenades, knives and tanks as well as the symbols of the major Western religions.


The human bones is a strong visual representation of what remains after death. Robert uses the human skeletons to form various weapons to tell us a message through his art. That message is to stop the violence, and demonstrates what is left over when conflicts escalate. 


Robert disassembles the human skeleton and recreates it into the form of something dangerous. He uses ribs, hands, shoulder blades and vertebrae are aligned to create visuals that are unmistakably familiar. Francois Robert’s art is beautiful yet horrifying.

Source:  http://www.ignant.de/2010/07/06/stop-the-violence-von-francois-roberts/