Robert Gobers 1992 Installation at the Dia Center for the Arts New York

Robert Gober Newspaper 1992

Robert Gober makes hand-crafted sculptures that replicate everyday objects with an eerie precision and, usually, a detail or ii that is simply a piddling bit off. He is ane of several artists exploring problems of sexual and cultural identity who emerged in the 1980s. His slightly distorted beds, cribs, sinks, and drains speak to difficult childhood memories and an unease with the domestic rituals and lingering puritanical attitudes of the suburban middle form. His surrealistic wax torso parts, and then extremely fetishized as to include actual human being torso hair, prompt contradictory sensations of terror, longing, and dissociation. Gober has extended his trompe l'oeil methods into printmaking past fashioning several editions of photolithographs that wait just like newspaper pages. Newspaper, shown here, is from a group of xxx-2 bundles tied with twine that resemble stacks ready for recycling. Each version was produced in an edition of either five or ten, and all were originally used in a 1993 installation at the Dia Centre for the Arts. To make them, Gober inserted his own manipulated photographs into layouts based on various national newspapers. Here a photograph that initially appears to be a typical bridal ad is, in fact, an prototype of Gober himself wearing a wig and a nuptials apparel. The individual impress also shows Gober as a helpmate and is juxtaposed with a story about the Vatican condoning discrimination against homosexuals. These works, which are related to the artist's 1989 sculpture of a satin wedding clothes, are concerned with marriage as an institution and rite of passage soon denied in the United States to Gober as a homosexual. These projects are among more than forty prints and multiples that Gober has produced since the late 1980s. They include other works incorporating photolithography, likewise as hand-fatigued lithographs, etchings, screenprints, and unlimited editions of screenprinted wallpaper, originally devised for installations.

Publication excerpt from an essay by Starr Figura, in Deborah Wye, Artists and Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: The Museum of Mod Art, 2004, p. 242.

Medium

Bundle of kickoff lithographs with twine

Dimensions

object (irreg.): six x 16 3/four ten 13 1/four" (fifteen x 42.5 x 33.six cm)

Publisher

Robert Gober, New York

Printer

Derriere Fifty'Etoile Studios, New York

Edition

artist's proof before the edition of 10

Credit

Gift of The Associates in award of Deborah Wye

Object number

658.1996

Copyright

© 2022 Robert Gober

Department

Drawings and Prints

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