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ROBERT GOBER (B. 1954) Newspaper, 1992 (This work is number one from the edition of ten with two artist's proofs. ) image 1
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Lot 48

ROBERT GOBER
(B. 1954)
Newspaper, 1992

1 March 2024, 10:00 PST
Los Angeles

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ROBERT GOBER (B. 1954)

Newspaper, 1992

signed, numbered and dated 'Robert Gober 1/10 '93' (on the underside)
photolithography on archival (Mohawk Superfine) paper and twine

3 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.
8.3 x 41.3 x 31.8 cm.

This work is number one from the edition of ten with two artist's proofs.

Footnotes

Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Sale: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Contemporary Art Society Milwaukee Art Museum 6th Benefit Art Auction, 19 October 1996, lot 36
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited
New York, Dia Center for the Arts, 24 September 1992-20 June 1993
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, Part 2, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 31 May-15 October 1995, another example exhibited
Boston, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Everyday Sublime, 2 May-10 June 1998, another example exhibited
Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, 9 June-8 October 2000, another example exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art, 23 March-28 October 2001, another example exhibited
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Robert Gober Displacements, 2 February-21 April 2003, another example exhibited
Daytona Beach, Southeast Museum of Photography, Off the Press: Re-Contextualizing the Newspaper in Contemporary Art, 18 February-19 May 2003, another example exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Between Art and Life: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, 1 July 2004-1 February 2005, another example exhibited
Basel, Schaulager, Robert Gober. Work 1976-2007, 12 May-14 October 2007, another example exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection, 25 October 2008-19 January 2009, another example exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Focus on Artists: Selections from the Collection, 22 October 2009-23 May 2010, another example exhibited
New York, The New Museum, Last Newspaper, 6 October 2010-9 January 2011, another example exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, 2011, another example exhibited
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Dark Pop, 16 December 2014-18 October 2015, another example exhibited
Munich, Kunsthalle München, Thrill of Deception - From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality, 17 August 2018-13 January 2019, traveled to Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 22 February-30 June 2019, another example exhibited
New York, Andrew Kreps Gallery, footnotes and headlines, 8 July-13 August 2021, another example exhibited
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Future Bodies from a Recent Past - Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, 2 June 2022-15 January 2023, another example exhibited

Literature
Kay Larson, "The Light Fantastic", New York Magazine, 19 October 1992, pp. 113-115
Maureen P. Sherlock, 'Decoy: Displacements of Loss and Hope', Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. No. 1, ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 1996
Harry Philbrick, interview with Lena Howansky and Robert Gober studio assistants, Robert Gober: The 1996 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition, Ridgefield: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998, pp. 15, 20-21, illustrated
Food for the Mind, Munich: Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst München, 2000, pp. 30, 210-223, illustrated
Alexander Braun, Robert Gober - Werke von 1976 bis heute, Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2003, pp. 297-299
Linda Nochlin and Åsmund Thorkildsen, Robert Gober Displacements, Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Art, 2003, p. 51, illustrated
Nicholas Mirzoeff, "Newspapers", Art Journal #62, Summer 2003, pp. 22-35, illustrated
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations, 1979-2007, Steidl/Schaulager: Basel, Switzerland, 2007, pp. 310, 322-323, 334, S 1992.09, illustrated

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