• Andrei Molodkin Liquid Black

Andrei Molodkin Liquid Black

The works of Paris-based artist Andrei Molodkin caused a sensation at the Venice Biennale in 2009. (b. 1966 in Boui, Russia), Molodkin grapples with sociopolitical issues as well as historical cultural contexts in his installations, which are made primarily of acrylic tubes filled with crude oil and neon lights. The resulting pieces echo in some cases the work of the Russian Constructivists of the early 20th century, but they also form architectural structures that the visitor can enter, thereby physically experiencing the light-and-dark contrast between oil and light. Molodkin studied at the Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow. He drew his first artworks in ballpoint pen while serving in the Russian Army. In these pictures, some of them on a huge scale, he casts a critical gaze on the icons of a new global world order. Religious motifs and political slogans – such as Barack Obama's famous motto during the last US presidential campaign, "Yes we can" – figure prominently in Molodkin's installations, for which the artist uses not only neon tubes and crude oil but frequently also blood as filler material. Link to Exhibition: http://www.villastuck.de/ausstellungen/2012/molodkin/index.htm

Hardcover 24 x 27,7 cm 176 pages 140 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-317-4 2012

Artist:

Andrei Molodkin

Editor:

Michael Buhrs, Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn

Texts:

Michael Buhrs, Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn

Exhibitions

Museum Villa Stuck
21.06. – 16.09.2012

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