Exhibition – Invisible Oil Peacock Visual Arts | 04 October – 15 November, 2008 |
If ever there was an exhibition relevant to Aberdeen, Austrian artist Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil is it. The black stuff is so important to the city and its people but howoften do we think about the actual product itself?Logar uses crude oil in the first part of the exhibition, pumping it through a perspex box and using it to create a series of prints. Two series of photographs fom the restof the show, the first being part of his long-term “Non-Public Spaces” project, herehe’s gained access to some of the key parts of the oil production process, some ofwhich may be pretty familar to people round these parts.The second set of photos is probably the most interesting. Logar has collecteddiscarded plastic and built a number of oil-rig sculptures on Aberdeen beach, namingthem after the city’s most deprived neighbourhoods. So we get sculptures, ultimatleymade out of oil, looking out to the North Sea where it came from in the first place(with a bit of a comment on social inequality thrown in for good measure). That’s aSelect …Austrian artist ErnstLogar engages with oiland its significance as ….National Festival of YouthTheatreculmination of anambitious …ComedyBeyond.name suggests, this iskind …Seite 1 von 2The Kiosque, Exhibition – Invisible Oil01.10.2008http://www.thekiosque.com/artsinvisibleoil.shtml
pretty cool idea when you think about it.