Mikhail Molochnicov

Mikhail Viktorovich Molochnicov [Михаил Викторович Молочников] (b. November 19, 1963) was a Soviet and Russian artist: graphic artist, master of books, author of installations and objects.

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I see City as a Spider that moves with us on the web... Spider is one of the oldest symbols between life and death as a "continuous sacrifice", as Schneider well noted. Its threads symbolize the duality of our world, in which Spider is a demiurge that connects the eternal and the finite. In the Upanishads, web thread symbolizes the sacred sound Om. In one of Akutagawa's stories, Buddha throws a thread into Hell to a criminal who didn't kill a Spider. Spider is both a God and Executioner, and this makes it similar to City.
- Mikhail Molochnicov Spider City / City as Artist's subjectivity. Artist's book project. Catalog. (Rus & En) — SPb: Ed. T. Markova. 2020. — 123 p. — P. 123.