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Serious Games (II)
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Serious Games (II)

Date2009-2010
Maker Harun Farocki German (born German annexed Czechoslovakia), 1944 - 2014
Object number2012.12.2
ProvenanceThe artist; [Greene Naftali Gallery, New York]; purchase from gallery by Seattle Art Museum
Exhibition HistoryBregenz, Austria, Kunsthaus, Harun Farocki. Weiche Montagen (Soft Montages), 23 October – 1 September 2011 Salzburg, Austria, Galerie Taddaeus Ropac, Harun Farocki. War at a Distance, 22 January – 26 March 2011 Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut Art Center, Harun Farocki. Image Works, 10 February – 15 April 2011 Tampere, Finland, Tampere Film Festival, TR 1 Gallery, Harun Farocki, 9 March – 13 March 2011 Sligo, Ireland, The Model, Harun Farocki: Soft Montages, 30 June – 20 August 2011 Lisbon, Portugal, Galeria Palàcio Galveias, Harun Farocki: Tres Duplas Projeccoes, 7 October – 6 November 2011 (“Watson is Down” only) New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance), 20 June 2011 – 2 January 2012
Credit LineAnne Gerber Fund, Helen and Max Gurvich Fund and General Acquisition Fund
Dimensions44 min.
MediumThree 2-channel color video installations, one single-channel color video installation
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.1
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.3
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.4
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