Artist Andrei Molodkin uses human blood in his installations. Andrei Molodkin, a Russian conceptual artist famous for using human blood and crude oil in his bold mixed-media installations, spoke out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through the medium he knows best. Molodkin created a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin using real blood as a graphic condemnation of Putin’s regime and Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24. He named his newest work “Putin Filled with Ukrainian Blood.” An eight-meter-high projection of the portrait was installed briefly as an icon at the altar of a church in central London on Wednesday. The blood was donated by Molodkin’s Ukrainian friends and co-workers living with him at the Foundry in France, described by Molodkin’s Studio Manager Anthony Martin as “an enormous industrial building complex that has become a home for the radical underground.” After donating blood, Molodkin’s friends went back to Ukraine to fight the Russian army, which has been pounding the country for three weeks
via themoscow times: Russian Artist Creates a Bloody Portrait of Putin to Protest War