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Home Collection Artworks The Past Catching up with the Present

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The Past Catching up with the Present

The Past Catching up with the Present

Gabriel Lester (in 2009)

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Title The Past Catching up with the Present
Material and technique Synthetic material, aluminium, motor, light bars
Object type
Installation > Three-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 94 cm
Width 243 cm
Depth 136 cm
Artists Artist: Gabriel Lester
Accession number BEK 1842 (MK)
Credits Purchased with the support of Mondriaan Fund, 2010
Department Modern Art
Acquisition date 2010
Creation date in 2009
Internal exhibitions De verlengde blik / The extended view (2013)
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Gabriel Lester

Amsterdam 1972

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