Art Break: Antonio Riello

[jack_babalon]

"In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a "fashion-fiction" visual story regarding an old passion of mine: weapons - objects full of symbolic senses. I want to mix, in an artistic way, traditional 'female stuff' like fashion with very traditional 'male stuff' like guns. It consists in a restyling of real military weapons into fashion items for ladies".


"Riello uses real military weapons to create his works: assault rifles, pistols, sub machine guns, hand grenades, rocket launchers, etc. He uses weapons from many armies: Russian Kalashnikov, American M-16, Italian Beretta, Israeli UZI and Galil, German HK 33, etc."



Every weapon is one of a kind and named after a woman who has been important in Riello's life. Lock, Lipstick & Load!

Comments

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

is that a ruger or are you just happy to see me?

rugers are my favorite guns. they just look like a gun to me...

[destructodeluxo.livejournal.com]

Now that is Art!!!!!