Slides of a Changing Painting

1982-1983

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

For a period of about a year, Gober repeatedly painted and photographed the same small board. He covered its surface, roughly eleven by fourteen inches, with motifs such as pipes, drains, landscapes, and the human chest. From the thousands of slides he produced, Gober selected eighty-nine to create the "memoir" Slides of a Changing Painting. The images, many of which address the themes of metamorphosis, indeterminacy, and sexual difference, record the transformation of his panel and reanimate the process of painting. Slides of a Changing Painting replaces the single finished object with a series of dematerialized images, all absent and none more authoritative than another.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Slides of a Changing Painting
Artist: Robert Gober (American, born Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954)
Date: 1982-1983
Medium: 3 parts: 1) 23 slides; 2) 42 slides; 3) 24 slides
35 mm slides
15 minutes running time
Dimensions: Projected image: 26 x 39 in.
Each slide: 2 x 2 in.
Classification: Variable Media
Credit Line: Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 1992
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art