LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze, wood, brick, aluminum, beeswax, human hair, chrome-plated bronze, recycling pump and water, plaster and latex paint

Size Notes:

overall; bronze grate: (3.8 x 74.3 x 55.8 cm.); box: (72.4 x 74.3 x 55.8 cm.); tank: (73 x 127 x 86.3 cm.)

Markings:

signed, titled, numbered and dated 'R. Gober 1993-94 UNTITLED Ed. 1 of 2' (on the side of the pump); signed, titled, numbered and dated again 'R. Gober 1993-94 UNTITLED Ed. 1 of 2' (on the side of the brick box); signed, dated and numbered again 'R. Gober 1993-4 ED. #1 of 2' (on the side of the grate)

Exhibited:

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober, May-June 1994 (another example exhibited). Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International 1995, November 1995-February 1996, pp. 28, 86-88 and 244 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color). Athens School of Fine Arts, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January-April 1996, pp. 116-117 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated in color). Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, INSIDE: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Ilya Kabakov, Annette Messager, Lucas Samaras, April-June 1997 (another example exhibited). Houston, The Menil Collection, Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon, October 2005-January 2006, pp. 92-93, 96 and 100 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color). Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, December 2017-February 2018 (another example exhibited).

Literature:

R. Smith, "Robert Gober," New York Times, 06 May 1994, p. C19. H. Schwartz, "Robert Gober: The Remorse and Conscience", Flash Art, Summer 1994, no. 177, p. 96 (illustrated). R. Jones, "Robert Gober," frieze, September/October 1994, no. 18, pp. 70-71. A. Perchuk, "Robert Gober," Artforum, October 1994, p. 101 (illustrated). A. Aukeman, "Robert Gober," ARTnews, November 1994, p. 154. D. Miller, "Robert Gober: Enviromental Artist," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 October 1995, p. G7 (installation view illustrated). D. Miller, "Out with the Old," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 03 November 1995, p. 15. C. Temin, "Global Bounty: Carnegie exhibits a feast of the visual arts," Chicago Tribune, 17 December 1995, section 7, p. 13. R. Flood, "Real Life Rock: Richard Flood's Top Ten," Artforum, February 1996, p. 24. Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, 1996, pp. 46-47. C. Gispert, ed., Historia de Arte: Volumen XVI: Últimas tendencias, Barcelona, 1997, p. 2969. Robert Gober, exh. cat., Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997, p. 52 (illustrated). Robert Gober. The 1996 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition, exh. cat., Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997, p. 27. R. Smith, "Religion That's in the Details," New York Times, 19 November 1997, p. E1. D. Joselit, "Poetics of the Drain", Art in America, vol. 85, December 1997, pp. 64-71. Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1999, pp. 25-26, 40, 131-132 and 136. J. Dietch, ed., Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, New York, 2004, pp. 147-148 (illustrated in color). R. Ferguson, ed., Robert Gober, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 53. T. Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, pp. 344-347, no. S1993.02 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated). Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2014, p. 82.

Provenance:

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998