sweet crude eternity

Russian Artist ANDREÏ MOLODKIN, who splits his time between Paris and Moscow, has been using crude oil to create art for many years now. He said he was inspired to create works with oil when he worked on a train which transported missiles through Siberia. As it was not possible to find coal, the train was instead run on oil- which made the soldiers working on it very dirty. “When we came out from the train to ask villagers for food or water, they saw how dirty we were and they gave us so much food“.” It was like exchanging oil for the food“

By transforming oil from an organic resource into an aesthetic form, ANDREÏ MOLODKIN raises important questions regarding the role of oil within our contemporary Western culture. And we can also seen the clash between culture and economy where the artist uses recognizable religious images or cultural iconography as his subject matter.

“Oil is like a global language of our world, a country can communicate with another just through energy or a resource.” – by MOLODKIN for BBC World Service’s The Ticket programme.

+ more about ANDREÏ MOLODKIN: his project with human crude oil, etc.

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