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Ernst Logar/ Graphic design: Olaf Osten
Book
link: Die schönsten Bücher Österreichs 2011 - Website
Book link: Die schönsten
Bücher Österreichs 2011 - Award ceremony
Book link: reddot design award 2011
Book:
Ernst Logar – Invisible Oil
In Invisible Oil, artist Ernst Logar
addresses the resource of oil and its importance
as a pillar of our modern
civilization using the example of the Scottish oil town of Aberdeen.
Over
the course of his work, the artist managed to obtain access to non-public locations
used by the North Sea petroleum industry. This book documents the photographs
taken
and Logar's correspondence with the oil companies active in the region,
as well as numerous
artistic works developed and made from oil-derived substances.
These objects reflect our
modern civilization's petroleum dependency and contemplate
on it in a haunting manner.
Attention is also given to the current economic
and social situation of the oil industry
- dominated city of Aberdeen, as well
as to the problematic nature of possible future scenarios.
Essays by Ernst
Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Karin Kneissl, Peter Troxler and Alejandra
Rodríguez-Remedi
examine the political and economic significance of oil as a resource,
as well
as the substantial changes in favour of sustainability that will be necessary
in the future.
1st Edition., 2011, 96 S. 58 Abb., 44 in Farbe.
Geb.,
ISBN 978-3-7091-0460-6
Springer Verlag, edition angewandte
Essays by:
-
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Foreword)
- Karin Kneissl - In the Name of
Oil
- Peter Troxler - Oil and the City
- Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi
-
Through a glass, darkly: Visualization, revelation
and
reflection in Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil
Invisible
Oil – Blick in das unsichtbare Erdöl
Book presentation: Ernst
Logar – Invisible Oil
und Panel discussion
25.05.2011, 7pm
Kunsthalle
Wien – project space Karlsplatz
Treitlstraße 2
A-1040 Vienna
Panellists:
- Manfred Killian (Erdölwirtschaftsexperte, Country
Manager - BP Europa SE ZNL BP Austria)
- Karin Kneissl (Nahost- und Energieexpertin)
-
Robert Lechner (Geschäftsführer, Österreichisches Ökologie-Institut)
-
Ernst Logar (Künstler)
- Monika Vykoukal (Kuratorin und Kennerin der Erdölstadt
Aberdeen)
Moderator: Teresa Arrietta (Journalistin)
Invisible
Oil - Exhibition
Ernst Logar engages with oil and its significance
as the basis of our modern civilization.
The exhibition interweaves the material
of crude oil and the diverse economic, political and social
levels of the
North Sea oil industry in a range of artistic media. The extraction of the hidden
is a
consistent focus of Logar's work and the material oil and its powerful
industry is its pertinent analogy
in our oil-determined lives.
Tillydrone
4 Oct - 15 Nov
Open
Tues - Sat 9.30-5.30
Artist's Talk: Sat 4 Oct, 2pm
Peacock Visual
Arts
21 Castle Street
Aberdeen (UK)
www.peacockvisualarts.com
Exhibtion view
Press release- (pdf - 32 KB)
Art review - Exhibition Invisible Oil - The
Kiosque, 1.October 2008 (pdf - 309 KB)
Art
review - Art show puts oil industry in perspective - The Press and Journal, 6.October
2008
Art review - giving´em
both barrels -The Scotsman, 17.October 2008 (pdf - 127 KB)