° 1928

Born in New Castle, Indiana (United States).

Robert Indiana (1928, US, lives in Maine) is a painter, sculptor and printmaker, associated with Pop Art because of his attention to the rhetoric of the American dream as expressed, not least, through the road signs leading travellers through to the Open Frontier. Throughout his career Indiana creates assemblages of found objects entitled 'Herms', in reference to the signposts of Roman antiquity but actually commenting on the American Empire. His best-known works, paintings and sculptures of the word love, are good examples of this. The word itself symbolises profound human emotion, but as an image it becomes an empty signifier.