"artworks made between the 70s and the 80s"
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Robert Rauschenberg
curated by Graziano Menolascina
CONCEPTUAL arte contemporanea
Via Goffredo Mameli 46 20129 MILANO - Italy
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February 7 > March 17, 2019
 Untitled, 1979 |
Galleria Conceptual presents a solo show dedicated to one of the most experimental and innovative artists of
the 20th Century: Robert Rauschenberg.
The exhibition gathers a series of artworks made between the 70s and the 80s, during the artist’s trips to India, China and Japan: inspired by the Eastern culture, he brought together different objects in his work, thus juxtaposing different media, such as painting and other materials. Rauschenberg called this merge between simple, daily things and painting combine-paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg’s works are truly unique, thanks to the original process through which the artist picked and assembled different items, such as handmade painting, reticular yet free compositions, as well as silkscreen imperfections, which distinguishes his work from the colder Pop Art style.
The show represents an intercontinental journey between landscapes, atmospheres and aleatoric souls of a master with no constraints.
Bike and Sand (both realized in 1974) form part of the Hoarfrosts series, works made between 1974 and 1975 with different types of cloth. The title makes reference to the Hell of the Divine Comedy: along with poet Virgilio, Dante goes down into the cold, foggy Hell. The beginning of the 24th canto recites: “What time the hoar-frost copies on the ground / The outward semblance of her sister white, / But little lasts the temper of her pen”. Rauschenberg discovered this technique when he was working with lithography. He noticed that some traces of newspaper ink remained on the bandage used to clean the stone after usage. By using a particular solvent that allows to transfer images on cloth, he began to transfer newspaper images on silk, cotton and chiffon. In some of these artworks, transparent and semi-transparent layers of tissue overlap one another, thus creating delicate and elegant compositions. The “Hoarfrosts” are works made of concealment and transparency, sharp focus alternating blurring ambiguity.
Early Egyptian Series 14 (1974), is part of the same series, created in 1973-4, which main material is cardboard. The artist used second-hand cardboard boxes, which he used to flatten and cover with glue; he then rolled them on the sand and ironically put bandages on them as if they were mummies, in order to make big sculptures or wall reliefs out of them. Rauschenberg’s passion for Ancient Egypt stems from Louvre visits and readings. By recovering second-hand cardboard boxes, he made the viewer reflect on continuity and transience issues.
The artworks Hard Eight and Box Cars (1975) come from the Bones series, which was produced together with Unions series, to which belong Quorum, Junction and Ballots (1975) instead. Both were made by the artist during a month-long stay in India, in Gandhi Ashram ad Ahmedabad residency, an important textile manufacturing centre. Hard Eight and Box Cars are made of handmade paper, fabric and bamboo, while Quorum, Junction and Ballots consist of mud and rags, often imbued with spices in order to enrich them with aroma, then adding fabric, wood and rope. Rauschenberg, deeply fascinated by Indian culture, drew inspiration from their use of simple materials, such as mud and rags, as well as from their weaving and composition techniques.
The exhibition gathers a series of artworks made between the 70s and the 80s, during the artist’s trips to India, China and Japan: inspired by the Eastern culture, he brought together different objects in his work, thus juxtaposing different media, such as painting and other materials. Rauschenberg called this merge between simple, daily things and painting combine-paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg’s works are truly unique, thanks to the original process through which the artist picked and assembled different items, such as handmade painting, reticular yet free compositions, as well as silkscreen imperfections, which distinguishes his work from the colder Pop Art style.
The show represents an intercontinental journey between landscapes, atmospheres and aleatoric souls of a master with no constraints.
Bike and Sand (both realized in 1974) form part of the Hoarfrosts series, works made between 1974 and 1975 with different types of cloth. The title makes reference to the Hell of the Divine Comedy: along with poet Virgilio, Dante goes down into the cold, foggy Hell. The beginning of the 24th canto recites: “What time the hoar-frost copies on the ground / The outward semblance of her sister white, / But little lasts the temper of her pen”. Rauschenberg discovered this technique when he was working with lithography. He noticed that some traces of newspaper ink remained on the bandage used to clean the stone after usage. By using a particular solvent that allows to transfer images on cloth, he began to transfer newspaper images on silk, cotton and chiffon. In some of these artworks, transparent and semi-transparent layers of tissue overlap one another, thus creating delicate and elegant compositions. The “Hoarfrosts” are works made of concealment and transparency, sharp focus alternating blurring ambiguity.
Early Egyptian Series 14 (1974), is part of the same series, created in 1973-4, which main material is cardboard. The artist used second-hand cardboard boxes, which he used to flatten and cover with glue; he then rolled them on the sand and ironically put bandages on them as if they were mummies, in order to make big sculptures or wall reliefs out of them. Rauschenberg’s passion for Ancient Egypt stems from Louvre visits and readings. By recovering second-hand cardboard boxes, he made the viewer reflect on continuity and transience issues.
The artworks Hard Eight and Box Cars (1975) come from the Bones series, which was produced together with Unions series, to which belong Quorum, Junction and Ballots (1975) instead. Both were made by the artist during a month-long stay in India, in Gandhi Ashram ad Ahmedabad residency, an important textile manufacturing centre. Hard Eight and Box Cars are made of handmade paper, fabric and bamboo, while Quorum, Junction and Ballots consist of mud and rags, often imbued with spices in order to enrich them with aroma, then adding fabric, wood and rope. Rauschenberg, deeply fascinated by Indian culture, drew inspiration from their use of simple materials, such as mud and rags, as well as from their weaving and composition techniques.
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