Robert Rauschenberg
06 May - 10 Sep 2006
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
"On and Off the Wall"
May 6 - September 10, 2006
In the 1980s and 90s, the American artist Robert Rauschenberg experimented with new and intense works of art that uniquely capture and express the interconnectedness of art and life – as has been his intention since the beginning of his career in the 1950s. The works included in the exhibition “Robert Rauschenberg On and Off the Wall” have a global and humanistic pivotal point, coming out of the artist’s worldwide project ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange). It was in connection with this project, initiated in the 1980s, that the artist began experimenting with metallic surfaces and with increasingly sophisticated methods of transferring his own travel photographs to copper, bronze and aluminum. This became the starting point of a development resulting in such series of works as Shiner, Urban Bourbon, Night Shade and Borealis, as well as the three-dimensional Gluts, inspired by a glut in the Texas oil market – a series in which “junk” aesthetics is combined with Pop art’s smooth surfaces and expression of mass culture.
"On and Off the Wall"
May 6 - September 10, 2006
In the 1980s and 90s, the American artist Robert Rauschenberg experimented with new and intense works of art that uniquely capture and express the interconnectedness of art and life – as has been his intention since the beginning of his career in the 1950s. The works included in the exhibition “Robert Rauschenberg On and Off the Wall” have a global and humanistic pivotal point, coming out of the artist’s worldwide project ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange). It was in connection with this project, initiated in the 1980s, that the artist began experimenting with metallic surfaces and with increasingly sophisticated methods of transferring his own travel photographs to copper, bronze and aluminum. This became the starting point of a development resulting in such series of works as Shiner, Urban Bourbon, Night Shade and Borealis, as well as the three-dimensional Gluts, inspired by a glut in the Texas oil market – a series in which “junk” aesthetics is combined with Pop art’s smooth surfaces and expression of mass culture.