OPEC+ Painting

Two works 'OPEC+' and 'Unaphtia' form a diptych that culminated my many years project ‘Semiosis of Meta-Abstract Symbols / Phenomenology of Freedom’ which lasted 16 years - from 2007 to 2023 - www.niyazmamedov.com/category/underground/page/3/ . OPEC+ Although this is a compositionally complete work, I consider it as a prelude to ‘Unaphtia’. Both of them form a single idea of a world doomed to rethinking. ‘Plus’, the content of which contains the text of the Apocalypse of John the Evangelist, takes the form of a ‘cross’, which is carried by cul-de-sac modern civilization, the main driver of which is an economy based on hydrocarbons as the dominant factor in the power of countries, as well as the shaping the agenda of world politics, endlessly generating wars and devastations to this day. The four seals - the four horsemen of the Apocalypse - are conditionally associated here with the letters of the OPEC abbreviation, while visually coinciding with the capes - the unique corners of the earth depicted in the second work of the diptych, thereby gaining in it a chance for the transformation and rebirth of the world in a different, completely new capacity, the opportunity for which gives the earth itself, if to rethink the attitude towards it, and above all - attitude of humanity towards itself. The whole project was carried out in conditions of complete art underground inside the transnational oil corporation bp where I’d made ‘deep dive’ for the unbiased and unrestricted studying political/social/environmental aspects of its activity that were the subject of my interests at intersection of art & semiotics. It was an unprecedented experience of penetrating the holy of holies of what should be explored and when the research was completed, I left the dystopia having sent preliminarily a letter to bp CEO, substantiating in detail my proposal to liquidate the oil corporation as axiologically unjustified.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:31.5 W x 31.5 H x 1 D in

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