CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/6/2018

Robert Gober at Glenstone Museum

"There's something about a near copy that is art indeed," novelist Jim Lewis writes in the catalogue to Glenstone's exactingly installed Robert Gober piece, "Untitled" (1992), housed in the Museum's newly unveiled Gober Pavilion, custom built by Thomas Phifer and Partners. "It is a strange activity… and an unusual thing for a grown man to do: to spend years and expend enormous energy making near copies of everyday objects out of unexpected materials. But it reveals a kind of valley or gulf, entirely metaphysical, between the things that comfort us and the things that leave us disconcerted."