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Art student's Holocaust project

June 24, 2010 13:28
240610 Campus Art Leo Cohen

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Jessica Elgot,

Jessica Elgot

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A London art student has used his anger over a US oil company's role in the Holocaust as inspiration for his final project.

Leo Cohen, 23, said his work is a political statement about US Standard Oil, which was linked to IG Farben, the company which produced Zyklon B for the Nazis to use in the gas chambers.

Mr Cohen, a founder member of the Young Jewish Art collective, has built an art installation at Central Saint Martins which includes six pools of water, three of which are black and oily.

The exhibit will be displayed on the rooftop of the art school. Working outside has been a long struggle for Mr Cohen, who has been forced to move heavy tanks of water into place and protect his sculptures from the elements.