LOT DETAILS

Materials:

beeswax, wood, glassine and felt-tip marker pen ink

Size Notes:

butter; overall : 24.1 x 121.3 x 101.6 cm

Edition:

1 of 2 + 1 AP

Exhibited:

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober , April-June, 1994. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst; Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2/Die Entdeckung des anderen: Ein europäischer Blick auf die amerikanische Kunst 2, October 1996-May 1997, pp. 133 and 146 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Heart, Body, Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Selections from the Permanent Collection, December 1997-January 1998 (another example exhibited). Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Three Stanzas: Miroslaw Balka, Robert Gober, and Seamus Heaney, January-March 1999, pp. 4 and 19-20 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color). Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, House of Sculpture/Casa de la Escultura, November 1999-February 2000, pp. 2 and 12 (another example exhibited). Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 1999-September 2000, pp. 24-25 and 119 (illustrated in color). Middlebury College Museum of Art, 13 Alumni Artists, May-December 2000, p. 63 (another example exhibited). Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet für Moderne Kunst, Robert Gober, Displacements , February-April 2003, pp. 62 and 99 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color). Dublin, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Robert Gober , November 2005-January 2006 (another example exhibited). Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Absence is the Highest Form of Presence , October-November 2009 (another example exhibited)

Literature:

R. Smith, "Art in Review, Robert Gober," The New York Times , 6 May 1994, p. C19. J. Saltz, "Robert Gober," Art in America , vol. 82, no. 11, November 1994. H. Molesworth, "Stops and Starts," October , no. 92, Spring 2000, p. 159. G. Howell, "Object/Installation: The Two Sides of Robert Gober," Sculpture Magazine , vol. 20, no. 5, June 2001, pp. 43 and 44 (another example illustrated in color). R. Gober, J. Rondeau and O. Viso, Robert Gober: The United States Pavilion: 49th Venice Biennale, 2001 , Chicago, 2001, vol. 1, p. 44 (illustrated). T. Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007 , exh. cat., Schaulager Basel, 2007, pp. 354-355, S 1993.06 (another example illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994