Andrei Molodkin "Oil Evolution"
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
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Daneyal Mahmood Gallery presents Oil Evolutions by Andrei Molodkin - commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. While Molodkin’s work is known for questioning the role of oil in Western democracies; and exploring the troubling intersection between art and money – Oil Evolutions uses oil as a liquid record of the earth’s fossil history to reconstruct the descent of man.
Charles Darwin’s model of evolution comes together in a three-part installation featuring Primate, Australopithecine and Homo sapien skulls negatively cast in acrylic and joined by a series of interconnected tubes circulating crude oil. Here it is not DNA that is the great signifier, that which transmits the virtues of one generation to the next, but oil – the new symbol of a universalized identity.
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from February 26, 2009 to April 11, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-02-26 from 18:00 to 20:00