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Robert Gober

Untitled

Maker

Robert Gober (American, b. 1954)

Title

Untitled

Year

2000

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

color lithograph, screen print

Dimensions

76.2 x 111.1 cm (30 x 43 3/4 inches) (sheet)

Identification

Edition

25/47

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

2003.10

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

I have no talent for poetic titles. I tried. I envy artists who do, like de Kooning’s Door to the River (1960); could there be a more beautiful and evocative title? I tend to say Untitled or use a simple descriptive title. I know it’s annoying to people and that it creates a vacuum when you “untitle” things, but if I have no interesting information to add with a title then why do it?

-Robert Gober

[Gober’s 1992-1993 show at New York’s Dia Center for the Arts] was one of the best I’ve seen in my entire life. It had prison bars on the windows and his hand-painted wallpaper forest. This surreal jumble of images was poignant and deep, representing to me a great sense of loss. Half the people we knew died [of AIDS]. Half. Can you imagine? It was like a war.

-Marilyn Minter, artist

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Robert Gober (American, b. 1954)
Untitled, 2000
Color lithograph with screen printing on paper
76.2 x 111.1 cm (30 x 43 3/4 inches) (sheet)
Jesse Metcalf Fund 2003.10

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