Business Plan of the Early 90s. Topography of Neocolonialism. Painting

The work reflects the penetration of the oil major BP into one of the post-Soviet republics - Azerbaijan - after the collapse of USSR in the early 90s of the last century. Strategically, the “business plan” implied establishing full control over the situation in the country (which was not always stable in those years) for the unhindered development of its oil and gas resources and their transportation to the world markets. To achieve this goal, BP received a carte blanche from the Azerbaijani government in those days .. The work is part of my many years project ‘Semiosis of Meta-Abstract Symbols / Phenomenology of Freedom’ that ended in 2023 - https://niyazmamedov.com/category/underground/ . It has been carried out at the intersection of art and semiotics research, which resulted in a number of innovations related both to the theory of art and semiotics. Most of this research was carried out in conditions of complete 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 preliminarily sent a letter to bp CEO, substantiating in detail my proposal to liquidate the oil corporation as axiologically unjustified. One of the most significant achievements during the project was the working-out of the Theory of Peripheral Meanings-Controlling Signs, in which an attempt was made to give the dynamics of the development of meaning to the static images - www.niyazmamedov.com/art-signs#17-02-2016 . Topography of Neocolonialism became the first work in which the theory was realized.

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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