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title = "Weapons",
author = "Graham Fagen",
note = "Group Exhibition in which 'Weapons' was a set of six colour photographs of children{\textquoteright}s home-made toys or weapons, with explanatory text. Created in response to the debate around the James Bulger murder. {\textquoteleft}Weapons{\textquoteright} are a recreation of {\textquoteleft}toys{\textquoteright} from Fagen's own childhood. This exhibition funded and curated by the British Council toured to 14 Wharf Road, London 24 Oct – 24 Nov 2002. Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 6 Mar - 8 Jun 2003. Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow, 23 Jun - Aug 2003. Latvia Arsenals, Riga, 20 Oct -16 Nov 2003. House of Artists, Zagreb16 Jan - 16 Feb 2004. Accompanying British Council publication 'Reality Check', 126 pp, (ISBN 0 86355 504 7) 'Weapons' also exhibited in invited solo exhibitions at the Galleria Valeria Belvedere, Milan, 18th January –17th March 2001 and Glasgow Vennel Museum, 16 August – 29 September 2002 and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London by invitation of the British Government 21 October - 20 December 2002, and the invited group exhibition 'Mars, Art & War' at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria 10 January – 26th March 2003, documented in the publication Mars. Art and War, Landesmuseum Joanneum, (ISBN 3 7757 1312 3) 'Weapons' was one work deriving from a collective research theme 'Conflict as cultural former' which examined the way we, as a culture, deal with war or conflict. 'Weapons' led to an invitation by the Imperial War Museum, London to work on a 'commission to Kosovo' toward the end of the conflict. Working as the official war artist Fagen researched the way the destroyed culture functioned at a time of war, resulting in the art-work and exhibition 'Theatre' at the Imperial War Museum (24 May - 6 August 2000). Evidence: Publication and portfolio of supporting evidence dc.description.sponsorship: The British Council coverage.spatial: Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at House of Artists, Zagreb16 Jan - 16 Feb 2004 Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at Latvia Arsenals, Riga, 20 October -16 November 2003 Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow, 23 June - August 2003 Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 6 March - 8 June 2003 Exhibited at the invited group exhibition 'Mars, Art & War' at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria 10 January – 26th March 2003 Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at 14 Wharf Road, London 24 October – 24 November 2002 Exhibited at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London by invitation of the British Government Exhibited in 'Reality Check' at Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 29 August 2002 – 06 October 2002 Exhibited at Glasgow Vennel Museum, 16 August – 29 September 2002 Exhibited at Galleria Valeria Belvedere, Milan, 18th January –17th March 2001 dc.format: 6 photographs (60x50cm)",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
}