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Details
Ryan Gander (b. 1976)
Milestone
concrete and concrete crumbles from Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, Marseille
15 x 9 7/8 x 4¾in. (38 x 25 x 12cm.)
Executed in 2006/2008
Milestone
concrete and concrete crumbles from Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, Marseille
15 x 9 7/8 x 4¾in. (38 x 25 x 12cm.)
Executed in 2006/2008
Provenance
Donated by the artist.
Anon. sale, Christie's Zurich, 7 June 2010, lot 4.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Christie's Zurich, 7 June 2010, lot 4.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
St. Gallen, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Ryan Gander: Something Vague, 2008.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further Details
The object is based on a common milestone - one of those positioned as distance indicators along the road in regular intervals. Inherent to the concrete mix is a special ingredient, visualising physical as well as temporal distance: by adding concrete that has crumbled away from Corbusier's "Unit d'Habitation" in Marseille (built in 1942) a small momument of modernism is being erected.