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130,000 Years of Last Tendencies - Detail

Abigail Lazkoz

Guggenheim Bilbao

Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain

130,000 Years of Last Tendencies (2006–07), is a mural painting that occupies the four walls of the exhibition gallery in a thematic continuum, displaying cross-sectional images of a cemetery that allows onlookers to see the buried bodies and gravestones at the same time as they see the trees that cover them on the surface. The title alludes to the estimation of Homo sapiens’ first appearance on earth approximately 130,000 years ago, the first hominid who inaugurated the use of burial grounds after grasping the fact of his own death. Lazkoz claims that, on the one hand, the piece is a kind of exorcism of personal fears and on the other, a free tribute to the classic painting of artists such as Sánchez-Cotán, from whom she borrows the resource of the geometric niche where the organic form rests.

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  • Title: 130,000 Years of Last Tendencies - Detail
  • Creator: Abigail Lazkoz
  • Date Created: 2006/2007
  • Location: Bilbao, Spain
  • Physical Dimensions: Five drawings (2006): 152.4 x 254 cm
  • Type: Mural painting
  • External Link: Artwork on the website of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
  • Medium: Mural painting (2007): Acrylic on wall Five drawings (2006): India ink and pigmented ink on paper
  • Artwork's location in the Museum: Room 208
Guggenheim Bilbao

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