Art show puts oil industry in perspective

Exhibition focuses on offshore sector

By Shona Gossip

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INSPIRED: Artist Ernst Logar with some of his work for the oil industry exhibition. Kenny Elrick

AN ART exhibition highlighting the north-east’s relationship with oil opened in Aberdeen over the weekend.

Invisible Oil, by Austrian artist Ernst Logar, uses a range of mediums – including prints, photographs and sculptural pieces made with crude oil – to make the key aspects of the oil industry in Scotland publicly visible.

Mr Logar created sculptures of oil rigs from rubbish found on Aberdeen Beach.

Also on display at the Peacock Visual Arts Centre, on the Castlegate, is a series of prints produced with crude oil and plastic debris.

There is also a clear box continuously pumping oil to demonstrate how oil moves.

Monika Vykoukal, curator of the contemporary arts centre, said: “This timely exhibition shows a wide range of works, that are both visually stunning and invite an investigation of the connections of our economic basis to public life in Aberdeen.”

The exhibition runs is open Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 5.30pm.