CARL FREDRIK REUTERSWÄRD, NON-VIOLENCE (The Knotted Gun), 2020

We are pleased to partner with the Non-Violence Project on a limited collection of fine art rugs after Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd’s iconic sculpture The Knotted Gun. Regarded as the most recognized artistic statements promoting non-violence, the sculpture was created after the artist’s grief of his friend the musician and The Beatles member John Lennon’s tragic death in 1980. Designed by Calle Henzel, the collection of hand knotted rugs presents scanned adaptations of the sculpture in five different colors. Each rug is free-from, made of 100% silk and designed with variable pile-heights assigned to create a layered adaptation of the sculpture. The bronze sculpture is casted after an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with its muzzle tied in a knot. The original version of the sculpture was installed at the John Lennon memorial grounds of Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, across from the Dakota, the building where the musician and his wife Yoko Ono lived together. In 1988, Luxembourg donated the original sculpture to the United Nations, and it was moved and installed outside of the headquarters of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Since 1993, the sculpture has been the symbol of The Non Violence Project (NVP), a nonprofit organization that promotes social change through violence-prevention education programs.

• Design by HENZEL STUDIO
  
• Edition of 10 + 1 AP
• Numbered
• Materials: Wool & Silk (bamboo)
  
• Size: 200 x 300 cm (79 x 118 ins)
  
• Technique: Hand knotted, 232,000 knots/sqm
  
• Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
• Lead Time: Approx. 18 weeks (depending on size)