Gallery 208 exhibit combines life, death and surf
by Kevin Cody The twist in David Krovblit’s story about his Faberge Grenades sounds so suspect that the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) fact checked it before allowing him to air it on their 2018, nationally televised program about the Toronto photographer. As Krovblit tells the story, he was in his studio staring at a decommissioned hand grenade he had acquired for a photo assignment when he noticed it resembled an egg, the symbol of life. That irony brought to his mind the Faberge Easter Eggs in the Montreal Museum of Modern Art. The museum owns four of the 40 remaining jeweled eggs made for the Russian Tzar Alexander III in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Kroblit photographed the grenade, and uploaded it to his computer, along with an image of a Faberge Easter Egg. Then he digitally attached the grenade’s safety pin, and safety lever to the egg. The symbols of life and death form a seamless composition. But the composition takes on an even more powerful meaning, Krovblit said, when you learn that the Faberge jewel factory made six million hand grenades for the Russian Army during World War One. “Ruby Red,” and “Faberge Trio,” from Krovblit’s series on Faberge Grenades…
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