Robert Gober
Robert Gober ( born September 12, 1954 in Wallingford, Connecticut) is an American artist of the Pop Art and Minimalism.
Life and work
Gober studied from 1972 to 1976 art and literature at Middlebury College in Vermont. 1974/75 he spent a year at the Tyler School of Art in Rome. Initially, he worked as a painter, in 1983 he turned to the art object to. He had in 1984 in New York His first personal exhibition. Since 1976 he lives in Manhattan.
Gober used for his works often objects of daily life, which he alienated. For example, he increased in his tissue box (1994 /95), a box of paper towels, so that it resembles a coffin, and brings a sewer pipe to it. He makes the exaggerated importance clearly, which is attached to this subject in everyday life and investigates the culture of consumption and throwing away.
A frequently recurring motif are sink without faucet and drain. They suggest the viewer to fulfill a specific purpose, but have been designed unusable. This familiar rituals of daily life are called into question.
In his room installation Hanging Man / Sleeping Man (1989 ) he used a wallpaper on the side by side pictures of a sleeping white man and a hung blacks are seen in endless repetition. At first glance the room a " perfect world ", on closer inspection, a clear indication of the great contrasts that exist within society.