Monday, December 14, 2009

Na Zha Gun Stroller By Shi Jinsong

And to think that just a few weeks ago,
we were getting all worried about a few stroller fingertip amputations.

In 2006, the Chinese sculptor/new dad Shi Jinsong showed Na Zha Baby Boutique, an "outrageously unsafe line of baby products" named after Na Zha [or Ne Zha, 哪吒] a troublemaking man-child Chinese deity who is now the god of lotteries.The original collection featured baroque strollers, a carriage, a walker, and other toys made out of Kung Fu-Klingon-style curved knives.
For this season, Shi has upgraded the Na Zha firepower, illustrating the difference between unsafe and deadly:
now everything's outfitted with machine guns and rocket launchers.
Designboom snapped a full gallery of Shi's latest baby gear arsenal at a survey exhibition of Chinese contemporary art at Palazzo Real in Milan. It all falls somewhere between Giger, The Matrix, and Alien vs. Predator Meet Jason.
And surely everything but the babywalker's JPMA certified.
xox
Gun shape baby stroller

shi jinsong gun shape baby cradle





Gun shape baby walker


Here featured work is part of the series 'na zha', a sort of brand name for an outrageously unsafe line of baby products. meticulously assembled in stainless steel from intricate mechanical drawings, they include a deadly carriage; a sadistic cradle; a sinister walker; and a malicious, multi-part toy complete with needle-tipped pacifiers and dismembering abacus. baby boutique confronts its 'shopper' with a radically strange and seductive 'product', lethal luxury designed to reveal the forces that dominate our lives in unimaginable waysin the work 'ne zha' it appears in the disguise of being protective, consoling and decorative, but its details betray its true function of weapon. it indicates the highest degree of ambiguity in one’s temperament. it presents and represents. it invites and refuses.

Shi Jinsongwas born in Danyang county, Hubei province in 1969, he enrolled at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1994, majoring in sculpture and mastering a gamut of traditional techniques.Under the influence of three powerful stimuli - radical socio-cultural change in china;a reading of foucault's madness and civilization; and the birth of his first daughter -the artist began to investigate ideas of transformation and control. he lives and works in wuhan and Beijing, China.

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