November 5 - February 12, 2012
Russian artist Molodkin takes on oil, the viscous black gold pumping through the heart of Houston’s economy. “Culture is an emptiness we have to fill and affirm with economics” says Molodkin, known internationally for his socio-political projects. At the 53rd Venice Biennale, the artist exhibited his installation Le Rouge et le Noir in the Russian pavilion. Chechen oil and the blood from wounded soldiers pumped through two replicas of the Louvre’s Nike of Samothrace.
Opening: November 5, 2011 | 7–9 pm
Lecture: February 11, 2012 | 7–8 pm
Socio-Formalism of the Aesthetics of the Factory by curator and art historian Margarita Tupitsyn. Followed by an artist talk with Andrei Molodkin
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
1502 Alabama
Houston, 77004 TX
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