Andrei Molodkin
Post Utopian Simulacrum

Andrei Molodkin is a Russian artist who uses crude oil in his artworks to deconstruct the economic realities of geopolitical praxis. He focuses on the Global Relations using oil and blood as a money.

Molodkin's Post-Utopian Simulacrum exhibition at Wooson gallery in Korea showcases his unique approach to reinterpreting avant-garde art, focusing on the struggles for energy in the post-utopian world. Molodkin's sculptures, created using a labor-intensive process, include clear plexiglas sculptures filled with unprocessed crude oil or blood. These sculptures are a subversive and provocative reinterpretation of the Russian Constructivism and American Minimalism periods, focusing on the struggles for energy and power in the post-utopian world. Molodkin's work exposes contemporary reality as fundamentally ugly and dishonest, revealing the cynical simulacrum that controls energy and power. The exhibition also features installations and drawings, highlighting the connection between oil, ink, and blood.

Molodkin believes that oil, ink, and blood are all the same, with oil being the blood of Russia and blood one day being oil, which may be made into ink. His work highlights the importance of re-materializing abstract forms from the Great Modernist epoch and the omnipotent simulacrum in the post-utopian twenty-first century.