Andrei Molodkin’s latest project is generating extensive media coverage, with newspapers such as The Independent, the Evening Standard, Financial Times and The Times reporting on Molodkin’s intention of continuing to use the notion of crude oil to symbolise the cycle of life and death. The artist has developed a technique for converting human bodies into crude oil that can then be used for sculptures.
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It gives a grim new meaning to the term body art. A leading contemporary Russian artist says he has perfected a technique to boil human corpses into crude oil from which he will create permanent sculptures, and he has already signed up willing volunteers. [...]
The Independent
