On Sale: Blood-soaked "Spare"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copies of UK’s Prince Harry's memoir smeared with real human blood are set to go on sale – with a five-figure price tag. 

 

Conceptual artist Andrei Molodkin says he has daubed 25 copies of “Spare” with Afghan blood, which he put on display at a Windsor shop in Berkshire, England on Saturday.

 

It comes after the anti-war artist filled an acrylic royal coat of arms with 1,250ml of human blood donated by Afghan refugees and had the image projected onto the historic St Paul's Cathedral in London on March 29, in a protest over the Duke of Sussex's remarks about his number of kills in Afghanistan. 

 

Molokin had said: "Prince Harry boasts of killing Taliban like they're baddies in a video game, 'otherising' human life then cashing in on the sorry tale to sell books about his drug binging, sexual exploits and killing conquests". 

 

Harry (right) faced criticism for revealing in his memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving with the British Army in Afghanistan. 

 

He wrote that it "wasn't a number that gave me any satisfaction... but neither was it a number that made me feel ashamed". He also admitted that he did not think of those he killed as "people", but instead as "chess pieces" that had been taken off the board. 

 

Molodkin said some of the blood donated for the “Royal Blood” artwork was used to create his "alternative Spare" books, which will be available to buy from May 02 at a/political, an arts organisation in Kennington, London, for a princely sum of £8,000 ($10,000) for each blood-soaked copy.

 

The artist says any money raised from the sale will be donated to Afghan charities. 

 

If you don’t know him, he’s one controversial dude who uses blood and oil to make his point. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To coincide with the World Cup in Qatar last December, Andrei Molodkin unveiled a replica of the World Cup trophy that slowly filled with crude oil. It had a symbolic price of $150m – a figure that matched the amount of money allegedly spent on bribes and kickbacks to FIFA officials. 

 

Last August, Molodkin presented a sculpture of the White House that reportedly contained the radioactive blood of Nagasaki-born men to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

 

And in May last year, Molodkin showcased a glass portrait of Vladimir Putin which was filled with the blood of Ukrainian soldiers. An image of the artwork was said to have been live-streamed near Moscow's Red Square as the Russian president oversaw the Victory Day parade.