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Single channel video installation, 13 min loop
Petroliania, curated by Elena Sorokina
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Biennial 2007
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Single channel video installation, 1999
13 min loop video loop, crude oil, water, wood
Out of the Blue Into The Black, Galerie Damasquine, Brussels, curated by Jerome Jacobs
Courtesy of Aeroplastics, Brussels
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Major Oil Spills, 1998
25 oil paintings, oil on canvas, painted by Arnold Helbling
Installation view, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne
Mayor Oil Spills is a series of 25 small Oil paintings each representing a catastrophe of an oil tanker at sea. The paintings bear the name of the ship, the date of accident, and the number of tons of oil that was spilled into the water. They are oil paintings of oil disasters. The paintings are reminiscent of On Kawara's date paintings in technique and size, but according to the material that is symbolized, namely crude oil, they are rendered black in black. For this project, I collaborated with the Swiss painter Arnold Helbling, who executed all of the paintings.
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Nowruz, Feb. 4, 1978, 600,000 (metric tons of crude oil spilled into the ocean)
from Major Oil Spills, 1998
25 oil paintings, oil on canvas, painted by Arnold Helbling