Robert Gabris is a Vienna based artist who has an obsessive relation to his main medium which has always been drawing. Isolation couldn't stop him from his work so he came up with the whole drawing book “CYBERLOVE 2” to help people with their need for distraction and visual joy.

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Robert Gabris represents a specific offshoot of contemporary artists who have successfully established themselves beyond their homeland in terms of presentation, market and institutional activities. Gabris's interest is in terms of the visual type of drawing, which is often referred to as "forgotten" or "submissive" medium. Drawing is a direct, visual and authentic output of the thinking process, with an emphasis on the themes that Gabris reflects in his work. From the genre's point of view, we could classify them as “harsher” topics that work with their own identity, the physical and metaphorical body, the ethnic and cultural origins of a person, and the individual's attitude towards definitions of socio-political beliefs.

These topics are expressed in contemporary art practice mainly by multimedia installations, liquid painting and committed art. Gabris does not work with current digital technologies, respectively; they are not an essential part of his work, though he expresses himself in the subject, technically mastered and detailed drawing with Dürer's precision. Large-format drawings have the character of verismo observation of anthropological signs (anatomy, detail, cultural policy, or references to ethnic and sexual stereotypes), other times the expression of the drawing itself gets to a more abstract level and speaks of symbolic acts. The visual trace of the individual drawings creates a tectonically layered structure, in a monochrome design. It is not a country in the sense of the genre (landscape painting), but rather a procedural recording of memories of "my" country.

Miroslav Kleban (Robert Gabris – My country, my blood!, Šopa Gallery, 2020)