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The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

The Museum of Modern Art

October 4, 2014–January 18, 2015

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Installation view, The Heart is not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, NY (2014–15)

Touch (1975) Oil on canvas

Touch (1975)
Oil on canvas
57h x 103w in (144.8h x 261.6w cm)

Intimacy-Autonomy (1974) Oil on canvas

Intimacy-Autonomy (1974)
Oil on canvas
50h x 98w in (127h x 248.9w cm)

Installation view: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver

Installation view: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver
Mathew Marks Gallery, NY (1999)

Press Release

The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

The Museum of Modern Art, NY
October 4, 2014 - January 18, 2015

Joan Semmel included in The Heart Is Not a Metaphor the first large-scale survey of Robert Gober’s career at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Ann Temkin.

The Heart Is Not a Metaphor is the first large-scale survey of Robert Gober’s career to take place in the United States. The exhibition includes around 130 works across several mediums, including individual sculptures and immersive sculptural environments and a distinctive body of drawings, prints, and photographs. Gober's 1999 exhibition Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver, curated by Robert Gober at Mathew Marks Gallery in New York, will be recreated for the retrospective.

Installation images: The Museum of Modern Art. Department of Imaging and Visual Resource, Thomas Griesel.