We Love Porsche
and DemocracySampo
4mula Gallery, Saint Petersburg
June 2008
iThe work is Cristal Molotov Cocktail.
The bottle is a Molotov cocktail prepared in a Louis Roederer Cristal chmapagne bottle. Cristal was first created in 1876 for czar Alexander II of Russia. Nowadays, it's popular among hip hop stars and the Russian nouveau riche.
Molotov cocktail is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons. Simple to make, they are frequently used by rioters. They were also used in the World War II by the Finnish Army against the Red Army tanks and then named after Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov.
Sampo was curated by Eeropekka Rislakki.