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Robert Gober, born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1954, attended
Middlebury College in Vermont before moving to Manhattan in 1976.
While his original ambition was to be a painter, he abandoned this
goal in 1983 and turned his attention to sculpture.
Robert Gober became an installation artist (artist that creates art
for a specific site, often incorporating materials or physical
features of the site) whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair,
was shocking to some viewers. He is well known for images that evolve
from our everyday domestic lives and are transformed into haunting
objects, as well as issues of pain, childhood, religion, sexual and
racial politics. His sculptures address the familiar and the strange.
The ordinary becomes slightly strange, and a subtle dose of unease is
injected into each piece. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the
series of sink sculptures for which Gober has become famous. Gober
also began making sculptures of body parts in 1989 and they have
become his most celebrated body of work.
On May 10, 2005, Sotheby?s auctioned one of his "body part"
sculptures, entitled "Untitled Leg" for $912,000.00.
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Nenna-GA
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Sources:
SFMoma.com
( http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail/00_exhib_robert_gober.html )
Sotheby?s
( http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4F44T )
Ask Art
( http://www.askart.com/artist/G/robert_gober.asp?ID=16064
Walker Art Center
( http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=1525 )
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