Andrei Molodkin's exhibition Crude, exhibited at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art from November 2011 to February 2012, took the form of a laboratory environment, utilizing the materials and technology of the oil industry. As an artist-engineer, Molodkin creates a complex mechanical system consisting of air compressors, cast-iron pumps, and plastic tubing. These dynamic interconnected elements work in unison to push crude oil through factory-made acrylic sculptures that both target and subvert political rhetoric.
Andrei Molodkin's exhibition Crude, exhibited at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art from November 2011 to February 2012, took the form of a laboratory environment, utilizing the materials and technology of the oil industry. As an artist-engineer, Molodkin creates a complex mechanical system consisting of air compressors, cast-iron pumps, and plastic tubing. These dynamic interconnected elements work in unison to push crude oil through factory-made acrylic sculptures that both target and subvert political rhetoric.