Robert Gober
dal 2/2/2007 al 9/3/2007
Segnalato da
2/2/2007
Robert Gober
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The exhibition will consist of two sculptures and several drawings, all made in the past year. These works continue to explore questions of vulnerability, nature, and history, all through the artist's unique visual idiom drawing on vernacular American forms. A sculpture of a plastic milk crate is filled with sculptures of green Granny Smith apples. Lying across the top of the crate is a Winchester rifle that seems to have melted.
Solo show
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Robert Gober. The exhibition will consist of two sculptures and several drawings, all made in the past year. These works continue to explore questions of vulnerability, nature, and history, all through the artist's unique visual idiom drawing on vernacular American forms.
In our 22nd Street gallery will be a sculpture of a plastic milk crate, resting on a cast of a wooden footstool and filled with sculptures of green Granny Smith apples. Lying across the top of the crate is a Winchester rifle that seems to have melted. Our 21st Street gallery will hold a cast of a wooden footstool with sculpture of an old packing blanket folded on the seat. Each sculpture is painstakingly handmade to look like the natural and machine-made objects they so closely resemble.
Robert Gober began exhibiting his work publicly in 1979. In the past year, his work has been included in exhibitions at museums in Los Angeles, Houston, Oslo, Cologne, Dublin, and New York, among others. Gober's work will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition opening May 12 at the Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland.
Opening: 3 february 2007
Matthew Marks Gallery
526 West 22nd Street and 521 West 21st Street - New York
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
Free admission