L’allestimento, nell’aprile 2018, di GOVERNMENT/VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY di ANDREI MOLODKIN per il Circuito del Contemporaneo, progetto ideato e diretto da GIUSY CAROPPO e promosso dalla Regione Puglia e partner pubblici e privati, tra cui GALLERIA PACK-Milano, A/POLITICAL- Londra. Il video del work-in-progress, le riprese aeree e la post produzione sono a cura di Maurizio Abbate/FreeLineStudio. Si ringraziano Comune di Barletta, Polo Museale della Puglia, Fondazione Santomasi, Associazione Eclettica, MuseoPerTutti, Arcotech srl, MOFRA srl.

a/political presented GOVERNMENT DOWN by Andrei Molodkin at Barletta Castle, an historic military defence site on the Adriatic Sea. Made from black steel, measuring 20m x 3m and weighing 12 tonnes, the monumental public sculpture and exhibition opened on Liberation Day, 25 April 2018. This day in Italy recognises the anti-fascist resistance, the end to Mussolini’s rule and Nazi Occupation. With GOVERNMENT DOWN in a state of destruction, Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “the end of history” becomes obsolete. Our socio-political project is exposed as fragile, broken and in-flux; contemporary culture is already in ruins.

a/political presented VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY by Andrei Molodkin at Barletta Castle, an historic military defence site on the Adriatic Sea. The exhibition opened on Liberation Day, 25 April 2018, recognising the anti-fascist resistance, the end to Mussolini’s rule and Nazi Occupation. Inside the fortified castle walls, marble sculptures from classical antiquity reflected an era of high-culture. In opposition to the immortalised history of wealth and grandeur, Molodkin’s three large-scale acrylic vessels echoed the violent desires of today’s reality; a Capitalist era of poverty, war and exploitation. VICTORY and DEMOCRACY installations are filled with the blood of refugees and crude oil from conflict zones exposing how our contemporary society is already in ruins.