Thank you very much for your answers !
Le samedi 21 février 2015, Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net a écrit :
I don’t read French so I don’t know what this article says, but if I
remember correctly there was an amusing irony attached to this
installation. In the center of that pool of black
There was a 16mm doc. from 1972 which deals with a mural that is in the
Imperial Oil building in Toronto. The film is part of the collection in the
Library Archives of Canada. It has a searchable database.
Gary Hill’s installation at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2006/7 included a
giant reflecting pool filled with motor oil, with a video screen at the end of
the pool. That’s the closest I can think of to a direct (re)presentation of
gasoline as art object. A review of the show (in French)
I don’t read French so I don’t know what this article says, but if I remember
correctly there was an amusing irony attached to this installation. In the
center of that pool of black gold was a real gold ingot worth tens of
thousands, which was stolen. Probably not Riffifi style, but bold
