http://www.gabriellester.com/ Updates from Gabriel Lester. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:20:06 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/76-Vayu-Vata- Vayu-Vata - 2013 Sharjah Biennial, UAE   Vayu-Vata consists of four Aeolian harps, which borrow their name from two Indo-Iranian... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:25:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/75-The-Future-that-Was The Future that Was 2012 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:43:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/74-ROXY- ROXY 2012   Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:38:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/60-DILZIS-+-It-Is-No-Great-Wonder- DILZIS - 2010 Rodeo gallery - Istanbul, Turkey   IT IS NO GREAT WONDER IF IN THE LONG PROCESS OF TIME, WHILE FORTUNE TAKES HER... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:10:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/61-Break-North Break North – 2003 Buro Leeuwarden, The Netherlands   A selection of works and installations divided over four spaces. This... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:10:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/62-Gift-of-the-Gab Gift of the Gab
 - 2002 Platform Garanti
 - Istanbul, Turkey    An installation proposing a series of gifts. Recalling the... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:10:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/70-Escape-to-Brussels Escape to Brussels - 2007 BOZAR -Brussels, Belgium The subtitle to my contribution to this exhibition for the Young Belgians Art Prize... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:10:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/26-Pro-Motion Pro Motion
 - 2009 Z33
 - Hasselt, Belgium    In favor of motion, Pro Motion combines several works that either isolate... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:09:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/58-High-Light-BOZAR High-Light BOZAR - 2004 Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium   Installed at the BOZAR (former PSK/PBA) in Brussels, the exhibition combines... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:09:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/27-Suspension-of-Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
 - 2011 Museum Boijmans v. Beuningen
 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands    Solo show addressing the... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:08:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/24-Anyang-Scope Anyang Scope - 2007 APAP - Anyang City, S-Korea    Part of the biannual Anyang Public Art Project, two permanent periscope sculptures... Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:53:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/publications/53-Monography----How-To-Act- weblink here Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:07:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/71-Kaufhaus-Incidentals- Research, in part at the Amsterdam Film Museum and the MoMA in New York, exploring their silent film score database sorted by keywords, led... Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:46:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/69-Transition-2012 Comissioned by dOCUMENTA (13), Transition 2012 is a large sculpture, installed in the Karlsaue Park at the split end of one of... Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:13:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/14-A-Man-Of-Action A MAN OF ACTION (ongoing series) - 1999 / 2012 Part two of a pantomime magician performance by the artist. Shot in the Andes Mountains in... Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:29:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/publications/55-Elevating-Witte-De-With-book- weblink here Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:08:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/publications/54-Sixtytwo-Gasoline-Stations- weblink here Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:07:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/about/1- My artwork, films and installations originate from a desire to tell stories and construct environments that support these stories or... Sun, 27 May 2012 11:12:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/18-Nightshade NIGHTSHADE - 2007HD video - 18min 17secPreceded by a 4min 36sec Overture on a black image, this film depicts an edit and sequence of... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:25:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/51-Piano-Piano Piano Piano - 2005 35mm film / HD video – 7min 37sec   As I was working on a collection of silent movie soundtracks entitled... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:18:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/45-Peace-is-not-the-Absence-of-Conflict Peace is not the Absence of Conflict - 2006 HDV video - 14min 22sec [looped]   Shot in the circular Rio de Janeiro Gloria... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:17:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/64-Chance-Encounters Chance Encounters - 2011   On tour since 2011, twenty-two objects on wheels form an ever-changing installation consisting... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:14:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/17-Urban-Surface URBAN SURFACE - 2005 DV-PAL - 10min 7sec Valse Triste (from Alphaville) – by Paul Misraki First in a series of films that show... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:13:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/48-Four-Doves Four Doves - 2007 DV-Pal video documentation - 9min 22sec   This is the outcome of early improvised pantomime performances that... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:05:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/47-Smoke-Some-Kill Smoke Some Kill - 2000 / 2011 Super8 to HD video - 52sec [looped]   Iceland 1998. Spent half a year farming in Vík... Sun, 27 May 2012 10:01:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/50-Choreography Choreography - 2001 DV-CAM video - 18min 12sec    A video triptych filmed with an industrial welding robot ascamera-arm, recorded... Sun, 27 May 2012 09:57:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/28-Conveyor-Belt-Sequences- Various conveyor belts transporting land- and cityscapes, create a cinematographic loop of scenes projected on the walls of theexhibition space. Secondhand... Sun, 27 May 2012 09:53:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/20-All-Wrong ALL WRONG - 2005DV-PAL 22min 19sec Narrative entirely made with images searched for and found on the web between 2003 and 2005. Story... Fri, 25 May 2012 09:23:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/25-Sketches-of-Space Sketches of Space
 - 2001 Endless loop Poster-changers generally used for revolving billboards, stripped from their glass and metal... Fri, 25 May 2012 09:19:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/5-Food-Chain FOOD CHAIN - FISH, BIRD, DEER, BEAR This would be a perfect food chain if only deer would catch birds and bears - 2005Goteborg Biennal -... Fri, 25 May 2012 09:15:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/4-Beautiful-Gamble Beautiful Gamble - 2004 IASPIS galleriet
 - Stockholm, Sweden    It took several years before I was able to realize the... Thu, 24 May 2012 09:51:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/6-Cross-Section CROSS SECTION - 2006Museum de Paviljoens - Almere, The Netherlands   This installation proposes to us what is normally a... Thu, 24 May 2012 09:29:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/63-ALTAR ALTAR - 2001 De Appel - Amsterdam, The Netherlands   Shortly after exhibiting Habitat Sequence, a first spatial edit, Ifound a... Thu, 24 May 2012 09:19:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/12-The-Last-Smoking-Flight The Last Smoking Flight – 2008/2010 23’ 44” – RED to HDV (2008) 09’ 32” – RED to 16mm (2010)   A... Thu, 24 May 2012 09:14:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/8-Big-Bang Big Bang [and assorted minor explosions) – 2007 Bloomberg Space – London, England
   In the main gallery of the... Tue, 22 May 2012 15:38:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/7-Seen SEEN
 - 2006 6 channel video-loop "15 "00 Bonniers Konsthall
 - Stockholm, Sweden    Before the new art center was... Tue, 22 May 2012 12:48:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/13-Cut-to-the-Chase Cut to the Chase – 2002 Haags Gemeente Museum – The Hague, The Netherlands
   Installation utilizing a wooden lattice... Tue, 22 May 2012 12:44:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/57-Clock-and-Clockwork Clock and Clockwork - 2003 Galerie Fons Welters - Amsterdam, The Netherlands   The Clock and the Clockwork was conceived at... Tue, 22 May 2012 09:27:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/9-How-to-Act How To Act - 1999 / 2011   Also known as a film in mime, How to Act, is a precise and methodical installation of coloredlights, edited... Tue, 22 May 2012 03:27:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/22-The-Big-One The Big One
 - 2011 17’ 24” – RED to HDV   A lottery draw, a spectacle that follows the logic of narrative drama,... Tue, 22 May 2012 03:25:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/15-The-Cola-Yoghurt-Project THE COLA YOGHURT PROJECT - 2004 DV-PAL 17min 13sec In search of the spirit of invention and innovation in post Soviet Lithuania. A... Tue, 22 May 2012 03:22:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/65-One-Rabbit One Rabit - Sao Paulo Biennial 2010 DV-Pal video documentation - 2min 03sec   The double impossibility of a combined pantomime and... Tue, 22 May 2012 03:14:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/66-One-Man-Bands The ongoing and growing series of one-man-band performances echoes the practice of the contemporary artist. Here is atext about... Tue, 22 May 2012 03:10:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/23-Melancholia-in-Arcadia Melancholia in Arcadia
 - 2011 SALT
 - Istanbul, Turkey   Installed at "I am Not a Studio Artist" on the occasion of the... Tue, 22 May 2012 02:38:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/10-Habitat-Sequences Habitat Sequences is a series of fully decorated and conceivable living rooms. The extraordinary effect of the black walls and the uninterrupted... Mon, 21 May 2012 15:04:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/49-Cleromancy Cleromancy - 2010 HD video to 16mm film - 2min 43sec [looped]   Filmed at the Netherlands Sate Lottery, this film-loop shows the... Mon, 21 May 2012 08:32:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/21-Night-of-the-24th-&-23rd-&-22nd The ongoing series of installation “The Night of…” is an interior scene set inside a cube made of lattice. The angle... Sun, 20 May 2012 12:54:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/16-Untitled-Incident Untitled Incident - 2007DV-PAL 3min 34secPart of the first John Fare Estate exhibition. A short slapstick about artistic collaboration and... Sun, 20 May 2012 10:36:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/68-Lester-Gabriel ONE - END   All at once, upon the same time, not so long ago. There were certain things one did and allot one simply didnot or... Mon, 07 May 2012 08:28:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/work/19-All-Right ALL RIGHT - 2006DV-PAL 13min 48secRe-make, re-visit and re-appropriation of ALL WRONG - set in Korea (2006) or set in China (2011). ... Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:46:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/contact/2- Gabriel Lester  +31 (0)611 27 49 17 +86 186 1660 1972 lester@gabriellester.com      Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140 1016... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:04:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/32-Nav-Haq Interview with Gabriel Lester by Nav HaqNav Haq: I know that you are interested in the relationship of your work to the viewer,whatever form... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/33-Grahan-Gussin A conversationGrahan Gussin:I was looking at the catalogue you made recently titled  'How To Act' which is also the title of one... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/34-Vivian-Rehberg Gabriel LesterIn Gabriel Lester's A Man of Action Returns (2006) a small, lone male figure (the artist) pops into a sublime mountainous landscape.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/35-Vasif-Kortun Like Sex Pistols to "My Way"Gabriel Lester employs the age old tradition of installation practice. His installations are like walking through... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/36-Raimundas-Malasauskas About Your Text Dear reader, I've written your text in this book and you might have read it already. Did you like it? Regardless of... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/37-Sara-Arrhenius Beautiful GambleSome notes on theatricality and performativity in Gabriel Lester's artThe technologies used in bygone ages to create illusions... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/38-Aaron-Schuster More is LesterOn the cinematic in the work of Gabriel LesterMy title is in part inspired by a particularly felicitous slip of the tongue... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/39-Hans-Askheim From an email conversation between Gabriel Lester and Hans AskheimIn the Cola Yoghurt Project you present encounters between you and... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/40-Nathalie-Zonnenberg Palpable presence. Spectacle and imagination in the work of Gabriel LesterUsually, a curator’s first encounter with an artist occurs... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.gabriellester.com/text/41-Dieter-Roelstraete One, Two, Three, Four, OneTwo musical genres are particularly suited to the One-Man Band phenomenon. On the one hand, you of course have... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100