Charles Krafft

Have you ever been to Slovenia to make a black market weapons deal? No, neither have. But Charles Krafft has. As soon as I read the little blurb about him here, I was interested in learning more. Krafft is an artist of a rather unusual breed. His choice material is porcelain, but his works are far from Grandma’s china. Krafft is known for casting and then decorating, often in floral motifs, some of the most popular and dangerous weaponry of our generation. His goal is to make “life-size ceramic weaponry so gorgeous and patently functionless that it will bedazzle and confound everyone who sees it.”

Of course, not all of Krafft’s work is so quasi-dangerous. He’s also done collaborations with some popular artists such as his Oswald Mosley Rabbit with Frank Kozik. Krafft’s work is currently on display at the StolenSpace gallery in London. I’ve never been much of a gun toting kinda guy, but somehow a porcelain rifle above the fireplace might be a humorous (read: less deadly) take on the rifle that my grandfather had hanging on the wall.

Image via Dirt Gallery LA