Sara Martinetti and The Fabricated Image: Pictorial and Textile Transpositions in the work of Robert Gober
On Friday, April 5th, our Art & Textiles class greeted Sara Martinetti and participated in on her lecture towards her research on The Fabricated Image: Pictorial and Textile Transpositions in the work of Robert Gober.
Grober is a sculptor who works with everyday objects to juxtapose common views, making them different by inflicting his personal implications on the works. Overall, Grober uses his emotional investment into his works to make them disruptive as a reflection of the image on the artists conscious towards the work of art.
Martinetti began her lecture explaining Grobers textile focus on methodology, explaining to the students how to observe works from different angles, and specifically, how to see a sculpture as a textile, through its materiality and expansion from the classic forms of textiles as fabrics.
Robert Grober at Matthew Marks
To do this, Martinetti explains her definition of the fabricated image, which here, means a thread-less fabric that unfolds in time and graphicness of the artworks surface as a way of understanding images, and looking at the techniques and layers used in a creation, and then continued to explain the two processes behind her research of Grober, and his ability to escape the frame through using embroidery to observe the lines of stroke and the interworking of weaving.
Martinetti throughly explained her research as the connection of textile and image and the transposition from one medium into another and how it shows a perspective about materiality and desire. Martinetti concluded explaining Grobers work as a means of crossing social conventions and blurring the different lines of gender and sexuality.
To conclude, Martinetti answered questions asked by our students about ways to go about their research for their up coming final papers, and how to look at objects in different ways, shapes and forms.
The class is already eager to welcome Martinetti back in a few weeks for a secondary guest lecture.