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Materials:
bronze, plywood, brick, aluminum, beeswax, human hair, chrome-plated bronze, recycling pump and water, plaster and latex paint
Size Notes:
37 x 34
Description:
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Markings:
signed R. Gober titled Untitled dated 1993-4 numbered ed. 2/2 and variously inscribed (on the tank); signed R. Gober titled Untitled dated 1993-4 numbered ed. 2/2 and variously inscribed (on the box)
Exhibited:
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober, May-June 1994 Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, 1995Carnegie International, November 1995-February 1996, pp. 28, 86 (text), p 88, 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 (another edition) Frankfurt, Museum fr Moderne Kunst, Szenenwechsel XChange of SceneX, June 1996-January 1997(edition no. unknown) Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, Inside: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Ilya Kabakov, Annette Messager, Lucas Samaras, April-June 1997(edition no. unknown) Houston, The Menil Collection, Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon, October 2005-January 2006, pp. 92-93 (in installation), p. 96, illustrated in color (another edition) Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober: 1978-2000, December 2017-September 2020 (another edition)
Literature:
Roberta Smith, Robert Gober,?? The New York Times, 6 May 1994, p. C19 (text)(edition no. unknown); Henry Schwartz, Robert Gober: The Remorse and Conscience,?? Flash Art, Summer 1994, no. 177, p. 96, illustrated(the present work); Ronald Jones, Robert Gober,?? Frieze, September/October 1994, no. 18, pp. 70-71(edition no. unknown); Andrew Perchuk, Robert Gober,?? Artforum,October 1994, p. 101, illustrated; Anastasia Aukeman, Robert Gober,?? ARTnews, November 1994, p. 154 (text) ; Donald Miller, 'Robert Gober: Environmental Artist,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 October 1995, p. G7, illustrated (edition no. unknown); Donald Miller, 'Out with the Old,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,3 November 1995, p. 15 (text)(edition no. unknown); Christine Temin, 'Global Bounty: Carnegie exhibits a feast of the visual arts,' Chicago Tribune, 17 December 1995, section 7, p. 13(edition no. unknown); Richard Flood, Real Life Rock: Richard Floods Top Ten,?? Artforum, February 1996, p. 24(edition no. unknown); Exh. Cat, Washington D.C.,Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Distemper: Dissonant Themes in Art of the 1990s, 1996, fig. 19, pp. 46-47 (illustrated), p. 131 (edition no. unknown); Carlos Gispert, ed., Historia de Arte: Volumen XVI: ltimas tendencias, Barcelona 1997, p. 2969(edition no. unknown); Exh, Cat., Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, 1997, p. 52-53, illustrated(edition no. unknown); Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and traveling),Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing,1999-2000, pp. 40, 136(text) (edition no. unknown); Jeffery Deitch, ed., Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, New York 2004, pp. 147-148, illustrated in color(anotheredition); Robert Ferguson, ed., Robert Gober, Los Angeles 2005, p. 53(edition no. unknown); Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel 2007, no. S1993.02, pp. 344-345, pp. 346-347, illustrated (in installation in Paula Cooper Gallery in 1994); Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor, 2014, p. 82 (text)
Provenance:
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Private Collection, East Coast (acquired from the above); Christies New York, 12 November 1998, lot 15 (consigned by the above); Acquired from the above sale by the present owner