Francois Robert "Stop the Violence"

I always have been fascinated with skulls (In my home town in Switzerland, my parents and I were living above a Natural Museum)..... In the mid-90’s, during an auction from an old school, I purchased 3 metal lockers and to my surprise one of them held a real, full size articulated skeleton. For years I had it displayed in one of the rooms in my studio and I often wondered what else I could do with it. Finally the idea came to me to explore the idea of disassembling the skeleton and rearranging the bones, and from that process came the series “Stop the Violence”. I spend a lot of time on my knees arranging bones. You can imagine how my knees hurt when I decided to create a complete alphabet in order to make words along with the iconic symbols/images. - Francois Robert

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