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Robert Gober

Untitled, 2000

Description

Maker

Title

Untitled

Year

2000

Medium

Color lithograph with screen printing on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

76.2 x 111.1 cm (30 x 43 13/16 inches) (sheet)

Identification

Edition

25/47

Type

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

2003.10

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

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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