Non-Violence (sculpture)
The sculpture at the United Nations headquarters in New York City | |
Artist | Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd |
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Year | 1985 |
Type | Sculpture |
Location | New York |
Non-Violence[1] is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl made this sculpture after singer-songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered.[2]
There are currently 16 copies of the sculpture around the world, ten of them in Sweden. They are located in:
Location | City | Country |
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Bagers plats | Malmö | Sweden (original) |
United Nations Headquarters | New York City | USA (original) |
European Commission | Kirchberg | Luxembourg (original) |
Chaoyang Park | Beijing | China |
Federal Chancellery | Berlin | Germany |
Sergelgatan | Stockholm | Sweden |
Kungsportsavenyen | Gothenburg, SE-O | Sweden
Outside Lilla Samskolan, Föreningsgatan, Gothenbourg, Västra Götaland, Sweden |
Anna Lindh park | Borås, SE-O | Sweden |
Mémorial de Caen | Caen | France |
Olympic Museum | Lausanne | Switzerland |
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront | Cape Town | South Africa |
The Museum of Sketches | Lund, Malmö | Sweden |
Roslagsbanan station | Täby, Stockholm | Sweden |
Fittja metro station | Stockholm | Sweden |
Åkeshov metro station | Stockholm | Sweden |
Brogatan | Halmstad | Sweden |
Kasernplan | Landskrona | Sweden |
The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden holds a sketch of the firearm on which Reuterswärd noted that his grief at the murders of Lennon and Bob Crane inspired him to design this artwork.
The sculpture has been the symbol since 1993 of The Non-Violence Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes social change through violence-prevention education programs.
Gallery
- Malmö
- Täby
- Borås. An M1911 pistol, rather than a revolver
- Stockholm
- Stockholm
- Halmstad
- Caen
- New York
See also
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Non-Violence (sculpture). |
- ↑ "Presentation page on the site of the Permanent Mission of Luxembourg to the United nations" (in French). Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ↑ "Waymarking.com". Retrieved 2 February 2014.
External links
Coordinates: 40°45′03″N 73°58′04″W / 40.75083°N 73.96778°W