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Item: La Joconde est dans les escaliers/ Bin in zehn Minuten Zurück. Mona Lisa

Robert Filliou

1969

Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: installation featuring a bucket, mop, brush and cardboard sign

Collection: M HKA/ Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK009136).

The work of playwright, poet, artist and thinker Robert Filliou is radical and provocative, yet at the same time subtle and playful. La Joconde est dans les escaliers/ Bin in zehn Minuten Zurück. Mona Lisa seeks to debunk the myth surrounding the world’s most famous work of art. It forms part of Filliou’s relentless quest to bring art and life closer together.

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