ROBERT GOBER

The heart is not a metaphor











Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 1991-93.
Wood, beeswax, human hair, fabric, paint, and shoes. 9 x 16 ½ x 45” (22.9 x 41.9 x 114.3 cm)
Collection the artist
Image Credit: Andrew Moore, courtesy the artist
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 1991
Wood, beeswax, leather, fabric, and human hair. 13 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 46 1/8″ (33.6 x 41.9 x 117.2 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser
Background: Forest, 1991
Hand-painted silkscreen on paper
Image Credit: K. Ignatiadis, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 1980-81
Oil on wood panel. 8 x 5 ¾” (20.3 x 14.6 cm)
Collection the artist
Image Credit: Ron Amstutz, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
The Ascending Sink. 1985
Plaster, wood, steel, wire lath, and semi-gloss enamel paint. Two components, each: 30 x 33 x 27” (76.2 x 83.8 x 68.6 cm); floor to top: 92” (233.7 cm)
Installed in the artist’s studio on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, Manhattan
Collection of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, New York
Promised gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art
Image Credit: John Kramer, courtesy the artist
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Two Partially Buried Sinks. 1986-87.
Cast iron and enamel paint. Right: 39 x 25 ½ x 2 ½” (99.1 x 64.8 x 6.4 cm); left: 39 x 24 ½ x 2 3/4 “ (99.1 x 62.2 x 7 cm)
Private collection
Image Credit: Andrew Moore, courtesy the artist
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Slip Covered Armchair. 1986-87
Plaster, wood, linen, and fabric paint. 31 ½ x 30 ½ x 29” (80 x 77.5 x 73.7 cm)
Collection the artist
Image Credit: D. James Dee, courtesy the artist
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
X Playpen. 1987.
Wood and enamel paint. 27 x 37 x 37” (68.6 x 94 x 94 cm)
Batsheva and Ronald Ostrow
Image Credit: D. James Dee, courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 2008
Cast gypsum polymer. 14 ½ x 10 ¾ x 6” (36.8 x 27.3 x 15.2 cm)
Edition of 4, with 1 AP
Collection the artist
Image Credit: Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 1992
Paper, twine, metal, light bulbs, cast plaster with casein and silkscreen ink, stainless steel, painted cast bronze and water, plywood, forged iron, plaster, latex paint and lights, photolithography on archival (Mohawk Superfine) paper, twine, hand-painted forest mural
511 3/4 × 363 3/16 × 177 3/16″ (1300 × 922.5 × 450.1 cm)
Glenstone
Image Credit: Russell Kaye, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
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Robert Gober (American, born 1954)
Untitled. 1994 – 1995
Wood, beeswax, brick, plaster, plastic, leather, iron, charcoal, cotton socks, electric light and motor. 47 3/8 × 47 × 34″ (120.3 × 119.4 × 86.4 cm)
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
Image Credit: D. James Dee, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
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Robert Gober . The heart is not a metaphor. 2014

All works by Rober Gober.© 2014 Robert Gober

An exhibition at Museum of Modern Art of New York | MoMA
October 04, 2014–January 18, 2015

Exhibition website www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1495

Exhibition organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator, and Paulina Pobocha, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, working in close collaboration with the artist.

All images courtesy of Museum of Modern Art of New York | MoMA
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