2 offset lithographs on affiche paper
USA, 1989
Male & Female Genital Wallpaper (black version)
Robert Gober (born 1954) – US-American pop art and minimalist artist
Dimensions: each 340 x 61 cm
Provenance: German private collection
Genital Wallpaper by Robert Gober have lastly sold for more than 5,000 Euros at Sotheby’s in London

‘Male & Female Genital Wallpaper’ is a work by the US-American artist Robert Gober from the year 1989. Two 3.40 m tall and 60 cm wide offset lithographs depict on black background in white outlines female and male torsos with genitals. Two prints of this edition were part of the 1993 exhibition ‘Robert Gober’ at the Tate Liverpool. There, the wallpapers have been interpreted as illustration of hysterical projection, hallucinating sexual phantasies and also elements of interior decoration. The cut human torso is a recurring subject matter in Gober’s work.



Both prints show several folding marks. At the upper margin are marks of paper clips, one of the reveals here several tears as well as a ca. 10 cm long tear. The dimensions are each 340 x 61 cm.



Robert Gober (born 1954)

Robert Gober studied literature and fine art at the Middlebury College, Vermont and at the Tyler School of Art in Rome. Since 1976, he lives in New York and at the beginning earned his keep as a handyman and interior decorator, and in assisting Elizabeth Murray. Gober makes use of everyday objects in his works. He worked together with a multimedia performance group for a period of time and underwent a lengthy psychoanalysis. Most well-known are his sculptures, but he also engages in photography, printmaking, drawing and in curating art exhibitions. Numerous national and international exhibitions (e.g. Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Jeu de Paume Paris, Dia Art Foundation New York and 2012 Venice Biennale) have tightened his reputation. Furthermore, some of his works were represented in five Whitney Biennales in New York. In 2007, the Schaulager in Basel honored him with a retrospective. Some important public collections possess works of Gober, amongst them the Whitney Museum New York, the Guggenheim New York, the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco and the Tate Modern London.

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