UN censors Edmonton artists’ sculpture

Sheila Pratt
Edmonton Journal
July 22, 2010

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EDMONTON – Two Edmonton artists are shocked that part of their internationally renowned work, The Gun Sculpture, was subject to censorship at a United Nations exhibition in Vienna this summer after pressure from the Chinese delegation.

The 4.5-tonne sculpture, welded together from deactivated guns, landmines and ammunition, has been shown in many countries, including at UN headquarters in New York in 2001, and has never run into problems, said artist Sandra Bromley, who built the sculpture with Wallis Kendal.

Besides the weapons, the exhibit includes panels with photographs of more than 100 victims of violence from dozens of countries, including two images of Tibetan nuns.

All the photographs were removed in an act of “blunt censorship,” said Bromley.

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This article was posted: Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 11:22 am

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