Robert Gober (b. 1954)
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Robert Gober (b. 1954)

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Robert Gober (b. 1954)
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signed, numbered and dated 'Robert Gober 10/10 '93 [sic]' (on the underside)
photolithography on archival (Super Fine Mohawk) paper and twine
4 x 12 1/2 x 15 in. (10.1 x 31.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1992. This work is number ten from an edition of ten plus two artist proofs.
Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992
Literature
Food for the Mind, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst München, 2000, p. 219 (another example illustrated).
T. Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculpture and Installations, 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, pp. 328-329. no. S1992.23 (another example illustrated).
A. Temkin, ed., Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2014, p. 177 (another example illustrated).
H. U. Obrist, "Objects in Transition", Mousse, no. 45, October-November 2014, p. 168 (another example illustrated).

Exhibited
New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Robert Gober, September-June 1993 (another example exhibited).
Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June-October 1994 (another example exhibited).
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, Transmitting Truth: Reformulating News Media Information, September-October 1994 (another example exhibited).
Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June-October 2000, p. 219 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Basel, Schaulager Basel, Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007, May-October 2007, p. 329 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Houston, The Menil Collection, 20th Century Reinstallation, October 2009-ongoing (another example exhibited).
New York, The New Museum, The Last Newspaper, October 2010-January 2011 (another example exhibited).
Saratoga Springs, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, RIOT: Selections from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Family Collection, May-June 2012 (another example exhibited).
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Dark Pop, December 2014-October 2015 (another example exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, November 2015-March 2017 (another example exhibited).
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