With A Series of Small Explosions focusing on the destructive power of bombs, Turner returns to a motif that informed past and new art pieces. Using a variety of forms and mediums, he has made both two-dimensional representations and objects related to these themes, and with seemingly playful toy-look for their use of LEGO bricks, Hama Beads, crayons, or because replicating popular war toys. The artist has produced a wide and diverse body of work exploring and highlighting the atrocities and glorification of war and violence.
Turner created the exhibited pieces conveying a critical commentary on war and violence drawing upon considerations on present and historical conflicts and terrorist attacks, and future threats, as well as recalling memories of the conflict he experienced as a child when growing up in turbulent Belfast during the ‘70s. These explosions also provide a critical reflection on how children are being exposed through war toys and games to the glorification of war and fighting, and the denial of their devastating effects on human beings. Their playful toy-like aspect is only apparent, as these art works offer a denounce of the brutalities experienced by children caught in war zones and terrorist attacks around the world, be they victims or perpetrators as young fighters, of death and violence. Turner has used these popular children’s building mediums to produce colourful panels and objects representing bomb blasts.
With A Series of Small Explosions, Belfast-based artist David Turner presents powerful images of bomb explosions created using LEGO bricks and Hama Beads and intended as a critical commentary on war and terrorism. Opening night Thursday 23rd Feb 6pm – 9pmĮxhibition continues Saturday 25th Feb 2017
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