{"id":457,"date":"2007-09-13T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/09\/12\/leg-with-candle-robert-gober\/"},"modified":"2009-07-11T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T16:18:47","slug":"leg-with-candle-robert-gober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/09\/13\/leg-with-candle-robert-gober\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg with Candle &#8211; Robert Gober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/gober5.jpg\" alt=\"Leg with Candle by Robert Gober\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecityreview.com\/s99conc1.html\">Leg<\/a> with Candle (wax, human hair, leather, cotton and wood)<\/p>\n<p>Three artists pay heartfelt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2007\/9\/art\/elizabeth-tribute\">tribute <\/a>to Elizabeth Murray. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/08\/14\/rip-elizabeth-murray\/\">R.I.P Elizabeth Murray <\/a>from vitro-nasu)<br \/>\nWe learned that Robert Gober helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2007\/9\/art\/elizabeth-tribute\">strech her stretchers<\/a>. Guess what yesterday (Sept 12) was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtq.com\/arts\/gober_r.html\"> his birthday. <\/a>Happy birthday Robert!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabeacon.org\/exhibs\/gober\/site\/\">Sinks at Diabeacon<\/a> or see more <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=robert+gober&#038;hl=en&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab\">google-gober images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A good friend was dying of AIDS at the time Gober was fabricating Subconscious Sink at the very beginning of the epidemic. The sink suggests cleansing rituals, although with no running water there is no ability to wash clean or purify. In this regard, a font of Holy Water comes to mind, but one disabled with no blessed water to sanctify&#8211;not an implausible association given Gober&#8217;s Catholic background and the emergence in the 1990s of overt religious imagery in his work.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtq.com\/arts\/gober_r.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/archive\/B\/A87309E5CA77C4186162.htm\">X Playpen<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/gober3.jpg\" alt=\"X Playpen by Robert Gober\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leg with Candle (wax, human hair, leather, cotton and wood) Three artists pay heartfelt tribute to Elizabeth Murray. (R.I.P Elizabeth Murray from vitro-nasu) We learned that Robert Gober helped strech her stretchers. Guess what yesterday (Sept 12) was his birthday. Happy birthday Robert! Sinks at Diabeacon or see more google-gober images here. A good friend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/09\/13\/leg-with-candle-robert-gober\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leg with Candle &#8211; Robert Gober&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-paul-thek-gober"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}