#robert gober
Robert Gober
Untitled
Robert Gober
Untitled
beeswax, pigment and human hair
23¾ x 17½ x 11¼ in. (60.4 x 44.5 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is unique.
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Robert Gober
Untitled, 2007 - 2008
Applewood, Pewter, Cast Gypsum Polymer, Beeswax, Paint, Pigment
31 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 18 in
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Robert GOBER
Untitled (2000) Lithograph and screenprint on paper
I thought of the drains as metaphors functioning in the same way as traditional paintings, as a window into another world. However, the world that you enter into through the metaphor of the drain would be something darker and unknown. — Robert Gober
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Robert Gober
Untitled Leg, 1989-1990
Beeswax, cotton, wood, leather, human hair
“Gober has always been a political artist, and his breakthrough work in the 1980s and early 1990s was lauded partly for its ability to address divisive social issues such as AIDS, gay identity and religion in America. Using a limited repertoire of straightforward representational sculptures and drawings that were indebted in various measures to Marcel Duchamp, Surrealism and Minimalism, he developed a uniquely provocative idiom of religion, politics, sexuality, mortality and memory: a visual language that sometimes sparked public outrage. The irony of Gober’s now celebrated status is that the controversial nature of his work – still graphic and demanding – has been dulled somewhat by its canonical status…” - Katie Stone, for Frieze Magazine
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Robert Gober, “Short Haired Cheese,” 1992–1993,
Beeswax, human hair,
4 × 6¼ × 6½ inches; 10 × 16 × 17 cm
Courtesy: Matthew Marks Gallery
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