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No portion of this document may be reproduced, copied or in anyway reused without permission from Rooseum. . Instead the intention of the exhibition is to illuminate the history of art from a specific perspective - that of the white monochrome. Our modern idea of the colour white has its roots in the nineteenth-century literary milieu where the white colour was associated with death and thus with evil forces. It was Kandinsky - the foremost colour theoretician of modernism - who recharged the colour white for the twentieth century, turning its negative power into something neutral that belongs with emptiness.
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No portion of this document may be reproduced, copied or in anyway reused without permission from Rooseum. . Instead the intention of the exhibition is to illuminate the history of art from a specific perspective - that of the white monochrome. Our modern idea of the colour white has its roots in the nineteenth-century literary milieu where the white colour was associated with death and thus with evil forces. It was Kandinsky - the foremost colour theoretician of modernism - who recharged the colour white for the twentieth century, turning its negative power into something neutral that belongs with emptiness. |
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Robert Gober robert GOBER look Robert Gober's fascination with domestic objects dates back to the early 1980s when he began to create sculptures based on beds, chairs, cribs, and sinks. Subconscious Sink contains the basic elements of a large old-fashioned sink Gober knew as a child. Mounted on the white gallery wall, the sink's gleaming plaster form almost appears to be materializing in front of our eyes, as if it's emerging from our own subconscious. However, it's clear at first glance that this is not an ordinary sink. Most notably, the back splashboard rises to an illogical height, splitting near the top into two eerily identical halves. |
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Robert Gober robert GOBER look Robert Gober's fascination with domestic objects dates back to the early 1980s when he began to create sculptures based on beds, chairs, cribs, and sinks. Subconscious Sink contains the basic elements of a large old-fashioned sink Gober knew as a child. Mounted on the white gallery wall, the sink's gleaming plaster form almost appears to be materializing in front of our eyes, as if it's emerging from our own subconscious. However, it's clear at first glance that this is not an ordinary sink. Most notably, the back splashboard rises to an illogical height, splitting near the top into two eerily identical halves. |
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