Vladimir Sorokin: Blue Lard
"Blue Lard - Cancel Russian Culture" serves as another door into Sorokin's artistry, offering a profound exploration of his literary and visual talents. The exhibition's title, "Blue Lard," alludes to Sorokin's iconic novel, where cloned Russian literary classics are transformed in a Siberian laboratory, giving birth to a unique product known as "blue lard." This blue lard, a thematic centerpiece of Sorokin's work, challenges the second law of thermodynamics.
Sorokin himself reflects on the inspiration behind the project, saying, "In early 2018, during a casual conversation, the idea sparked in my mind — why not bring to life the handwritten texts of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Nabokov, Akhmatova, and Pasternak as they would have penned them? These texts, meticulously written in their own hand, had never been seen before."
Dates: 15 — 23, 2023
Venue: Berlin
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Artist: Vladimir Sorokin
