
A LIFE IN ART: THE MALLIN COLLECTION
Male and Female Genital Wallpaper
Lot Closed
June 21, 02:28 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Gober
b. 1954
Male and Female Genital Wallpaper
hand-printed silkscreen on paper, in four parts
each: 540 by 29⅜ in.
1371.6 by 61 cm.
Executed in 1989.
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober, September - October 1989 (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Kunsthalle Bern, Robert Gober, May - October 1990, pp. 79-11 (another example exhibited)
Kunstverein in Hamburg and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Ethik und Ästhetik im Zeitalter von Aids, May - November 1992, pp. 18-19 (another example exhibited)
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Corporal Politics, December 1992 - February 1993, p. 43 (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery and Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Robert Gober, March - August 1993 (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zahlt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June - October 1994 (another example exhibited)
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, February - April 2003 (another example exhibited)
Basel, Schaulager, Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007, May - October 2007 (another example exhibited)
Venice, Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Mapping the Studio, June 2009 - December 2010 (another example exhibited)
The University of Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, February - May 2010 (another example exhibited)
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, From Death to Death and other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.
Daskalopoulos Collection, December 2012 - September 2013 (another example exhibited)
Boston, Samsøn Projects, The Origin of the World—The Force of the Source, January - March 2013 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, October 2014 - January 2015 (another example exhibited)
Lisa Liebmann, “The Case of Robert Gober”, Parkett no. 21, September 1989, pp. 6-9
“Red Flag for Jesse Helms”, San Francisco Examiner, 12 October 1989
Roberta Smith, “The Reinvented Americana of Robert Gober’s Mind”, The New York Times, 13 October 1989, p. C28
Margaret Sundell, ”Robert Gober”, Seven Days, 18 October 1989, p. 73
Gregg Bordowitz, “Who is Art,?” Outweek, 22 October 1989, pp. 56 and 63
Elizabeth Hess, “Artbeat,” The Village Voice, 31 October 1989, p. 63 (another example illustrated)
Eleanor Heartney, "No Holes Barred," ARTnews, January 1990, p. 35 (another example illustrated)
Ken Johnson, “Cleaning House,” Art in America, January 1990, pp.150-151 (another example illustrated)
Terry R. Myers, “Reviews," Flash Art, January - February 1990, p. 129 (another example illustrated)
Gretchen Faust, “New York in Review," Arts Magazine, January 1990, p. 101
Robert Mahoney, “Reviews,” Contemporanea, February 1990, p. 95
Richard Flood, “Robert Gober: Special Editions, An Interview,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, March - April 1990, p. 6 (another example illustrated)
Nancy Princethal, “Rooms with a View,” Sculpture Magazine, March - April 1990, p. 28
Eleanor Heartney, “Robert Gober: Une Sculpture du Deracinement,” Artpress, April 1990, p. 36 (another example illustrated)
Leon Miller, “Word Up: News of the Outrageous, the Amusing, the Pathetic and the Unexpected,” BLK, May 1990, p. 3 (another example illustrated)
Bill Jones, “Stunted Bridges and Facinating Hardware," Arts Magazine, summer 1990, pp. 50-56
Ester Adeyemi, "Robert Gober Verbindet Leben mit Momenten des Todes," Berner Zeitung Ausgabe Stadt und Region Bern, 31 August 1990 (another example illustrated)
"Kühle Formen Assoziieren Heisse Erinnerungen," Der Bund, vol. 141, 31 August 1990, p. 35
Renate Puvogel, "Monographie: Robert Gober," Kunstforum International, January - February 1991, p. 269 (another example illustrated)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Robert Gober, 1991, pp. 32-33 (another example illustrated)
Josef Helfenstein, “The Power of Intimacy”, Parkett no. 27, March 1991, p. 30 (another example illustrated)
Harald Szeemann, "The Fount of Youth Gober la Bourgeoisie!," Parkett no. 27, March 1991, p. 77 (another example illustrated)
Mira Schor, “You Can’t Leave Home Without It,” Artforum, October 1991, p. 116 (another example illustrated)
Alain Cueff, Le Lieu de L'oeuvre: Bustamante, Gober, Klingelhöller, Mucha, Schütte, Vercruysse, Bern, 1992, p. 89 (another example illustrated)
Adrian Searle, "The End of the World," Frieze, June - August 1992, p. 23 (another example illustrated)
Katherine Lewis, “NEA Watch: Radice to Decency’s Rescue,” Artpaper, summer 1992, p. 9
Gilles Néret, Twentieth-Century Erotic Art, Cologne, 1993, pp. 32-33 (another example illustrated)
Donald Kuspit, “The End of the World Has Already Happened: Robert Gober,” Artforum, February 1993, pp. 91-93
Andrew Graham-Dixon, “Insulated from the Shock of Reason," The Independent, 23 March 1993 (online)
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, vol. 1, Basel, 2007, p. 240-1 (another example illustrated)
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