53rd Venice Biennale. "Victory over the future. Tales of Italy

[Vladimir]

... the main come down to us from Italy, the scandal was the episode with a gesture of the artist Andrew Molodkina. You should be aware of its distinctive pump installation - inside the plexiglass sculptures pumped liquid (usually oil), turning the sculpture quote (usually political) in the absolute metaphor. For each such phrase (G8, COLD WAR II, etc.) or image (the crucifix, Nike, etc.) can write an essay of 48 pages.

While it was cool - it was fascinating. Slogans on our age will suffice. And technological ideas are born every day. So Molodkin had to be repeated, squeezing to infinity the same engineering discovery.
Therefore, those who had seen his work before, is unlikely to be speechless with surprise at the sight of the sculpture "Red and Black". Two hollow transparent Nike of Samothrace, and things as usual - is circulating in the blood and oil, respectively.

Works piece - and thank God. But no such luck - Molodkin had prepared a surprise. According to the victims in the evening on the opening day, having lulled the vigilance of the curator, artist "signed" their work by placing two inscriptions: in aglitski "Chechen crude oil" and "the blood of survivors of the Chechen war." Op-pa! And this policy in the public hall, but also on the sensitive issue.

Gesture by gesture, but also get a hat - easily. Molodkin lives in France, may not be familiar, but in Russia to receive the cap is often not the case, namely gestures ... Classic "propuskat. Someone in the ribbon is not that cut off the Turkish hotel, someone "good operative" who was shot in supermarket praise or worse in the climb with the business policies of the past.

And what this Molodkina not enough? And at the Biennale invited, and on the cover of the catalog Nick was placed. And he, you know ... hardly intercepted. It's a miracle cost  joke, and only ...

And, incidentally, very well done out Molodkin: some gray hair, he added, but was more than all the references in the foreign press.