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Full Spectrum Dominance

Bruce Mahalski
Kivani Moriarty

Tuesday 23 August - 10 September

FSD takes on the children’s toy industry and parodies military aesthetics as it goes. Using plastic guns and other replica weapons intended for the children's market, Mahalski presents his own weapons of mass deconstruction.

“Part of war’s appeal - in my case anyway – is linked to aesthetics. Many weapons possess the beauty and elegance of any other piece of fine design and explosions have a beauty all of their own… when I was five years old I desperately wanted a toy gun. My parents wouldn’t buy me one so I made a gun myself and ran off to play war games with the rest of boys of the neighbourhood. Now I’m a parent myself I won’t let my children have toy guns either. So FULL SEPCTRUM DOMINANCE is a reflection of my interests as well as a reaction to the contradictory world we live in” Mahalski said.

FSD is accompanied by medals by Paekakariki artist, Kivani Moriarty. Loosely based on military medals, these works also lampoon and twist ideas of a military design aesthetic.


Dinosaur Gun by Bruce Mahalski

A heart armed with love 2005 by Kivani Moriarty