ID 842803
Lot 136 | ROBERT GOBER (B. 1954)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
1978-2000
signed, titled, dated and numbered 'R. Gober 1978-2000, 1978-2000 Ed 3/5' (on the reverse of the mount for photograph #22); numbered again '3/5' (on the reverse of each mount)
gelatin silver print, in 22 parts
each image: 20 1/4 x 29 1/2 in. (51.4 x 74.9 cm.)
each mount: 25 1/2 x 34 3/4 in. (64.8 x 88.3 cm.)
Executed in 1978-2000 and printed circa 2003. This work is number three from an edition of five plus three artist's proofs.
Provenance
Matthew Marks Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007
Literature
M. Kimmelman,"Biennial 2006: Short on Pretty, Long on Collaboration", The New York Times, March 3, 2006, pp. E31, E39.
J. Saltz, "Biennial in Babylon", The Village Voice, March 8-14, 2006, p. 86.
V. Aletti, "Too Blessed to be Depressed", Modern Painters, May 2006, pp. 46-48.
A, Bellini, "Whitney and Berlin Biennials", Flash Art, May/June 2006, pp. 76-78.
"Schaulager: Robert Gober", Art TV Ch, June 22, 2007.
"Amerikana", Artico Art Magazine, December 2, 2009 (another example from the edition illustrated).
K. Siegal, Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, London, 2011, p. 41.
A. Temkin and H. Als. Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, New York, 2014. pp. 204-205, 208-209 (another example from the edition illustrated).
K. Marta, Robert Gober 2000 Words, Athens, 2015, pp. 29-37 (illustrated).
A. Jen, "Robert Gober's Willful Revision," Aperture, February 2018 (another example from the edition illustrated).
"Robert Gober: Permanent event at the ICA in Miami, United States", Wall Street International, August 30, 2019 (another example from the edition illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, March-May 2006, p.239 (another example from the edition exhibited and illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Schütte, December 2006-December 2007 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Basel, Schaulager, Robert Gober. Work 1976-2007, May-October 2007 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Cascais, The Ellipse Foundation, Listen Darling...The World is Yours, Curated by Lisa Phillips, October 2008-August 2009 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, May-December 2009, p. 177 (illustrated).
Berlin, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Amerikana, November 2009-January 2010, p. 2-7 (illustrated).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Contemporary Collections (From 1960 To Present), April 2011-February 2012 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Dallas Museum of Art, Passages in Modern Art: 1946-1996, March 2016-June 2017 (another example from the edition exhibited).
ICA Miami, Robert Gober: 1978-2000, December 2017-March 2020, p. 16-23, 28-33, 36-79, 82-105, 108-131 (another example from the edition exhibited and illustrated).
Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums, Analog Culture: Printer's Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981-2001, May-August 2018, p. 151-163, 167 (another example from the edition exhibited and illustrated).
Artist: | Robert Gober (1954) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Photography |
Artist: | Robert Gober (1954) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Photography |
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