Robert Gober

The Pavilions, Room 4

Untitled, 1992, is a room-scale, multisensory presentation made up of diverse components: darkened exterior pathways, a brightly lit interior chamber with walls covered by a hand-painted, 360-degree mural of a forest, sinks with running water mounted on the walls, and multiple “prison windows,” forged iron bars through which a view of a painted sky is visible. Strewn about the room’s floor are piles of newspapers and boxes of rat bait. Together these elements form an architectural, aural, and aesthetic environment—an immersive work of art. This work was first conceived in response to an invitation from the Dia Center for the Arts in New York (now the Dia Art Foundation) that encompassed the entire third floor of Dia’s space at 548 West Twenty-Second Street in New York.

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    • Untitled
      Robert Gober
      Untitled, 1992
      On View Gober 1992
      Untitled, 1992
      plywood, forged iron, plaster, latex paint, lights, enameled cast iron, stainless steel, painted cast bronze, water, metal, lightbulbs, cast plaster with casein and silk-screened ink, photolithography on Mohawk Superfine archival paper, twine, hand-painted forest mural
      dimensions variable
      © Robert Gober, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
      Photo: Ron Amstutz
      On View       Ron Amstutz
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    Publications

    Robert Gober (2018)

    Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Text by Jim Lewis.

    This catalogue marks the long-term installation of Robert Gober’s (born 1954) seminal Untitled, 1992, at Glenstone. Untitled is an immersive, multi-sensorial installation with diverse constituent parts: sinks with running water, darkened exterior pathways, a brightly-lit interior chamber, a hand-painted 360-degree mural, and discrete sculptural elements made to appear like prison windows, boxes of rat bait, and bundles of newspaper. Robert Gober includes never-before-published archival images of the work’s original presentation at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, an oral history based on interviews with the artist and collaborators, an original essay by author Jim Lewis, and extensive imagery of the piece as installed at Glenstone.

    Publisher: Glenstone Museum
    ISBN: 9780999802908
    Publication date: 2018
    Page count: 84

    $35.00

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