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Robert Rauschenberg

The Ten Last Years

Robert Rauschenberg

The Ten Last Years

Exhibition curator(s):

Bernice Rose

From 6 June to 14 October 2002, the Musée Maillol will present a major exhibition devoted to recent works (between 1995 and 2002) by Robert Rauschenberg.

Robert Rauschenberg is considered to be one of the most important living American painters. Along with Jasper Johns, he represents one of the key poles of American painting. His abundant body of work remains extraordinary, mixing techniques: collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, engraving, and the presence of real objects or waste, on supports ranging from wood and chipped metal to paper.

Each of Rauschenberg’s paintings is a composite of artistic and non-artistic methods brought together as if by chance. The role of chance in Rauschenberg’s work can be traced back to his encounter with Marcel Duchamp in New York in the 1950s. Rauschenberg, like Jaspers Johns, became familiar with the revolutionary ideas of Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the ready-made that heralded Pop Art and Rauschenberg’s work is considered to be a bridge between the abstract expressionism of the New York School and Pop Art in the 1960s. The more the artist’s work evolved, the more diverse it became.

Perhaps the driving force behind Rauschenberg’s revival lies in the series Synapsis Shuffle, 1999, which is both the starting point and the centre of the exhibition. Acquired by the Whitney Museum, Synapsis Shuffle is a series of 52 panels that function like a pack of cards. The panels are the same height but not the same width. They are intended to be shuffled into 12 sets made up of a different number of panels drawn at random by twelve different players. Each presentation of Synapsis Shuffle gives rise to an event that determines the direction in which the work will be hung and presented, so that the series will never be shown identically twice.

The exhibition “Rauschenberg: The Last Ten Years” allows the public to assess a body of work as fertile as any of the great human adventures of the New York School.

From 6 June to 14 October 2002, the Musée Maillol will present a major exhibition devoted to recent works (between 1995 and 2002) by Robert Rauschenberg.

Robert Rauschenberg is considered to be one of the most important living American painters. Along with Jasper Johns, he represents one of the key poles of American painting. His abundant body of work remains extraordinary, mixing techniques: collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, engraving, and the presence of real objects or waste, on supports ranging from wood and chipped metal to paper.

Each of Rauschenberg’s paintings is a composite of artistic and non-artistic methods brought together as if by chance. The role of chance in Rauschenberg’s work can be traced back to his encounter with Marcel Duchamp in New York in the 1950s. Rauschenberg, like Jaspers Johns, became familiar with the revolutionary ideas of Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the ready-made that heralded Pop Art and Rauschenberg’s work is considered to be a bridge between the abstract expressionism of the New York School and Pop Art in the 1960s. The more the artist’s work evolved, the more diverse it became.

Perhaps the driving force behind Rauschenberg’s revival lies in the series Synapsis Shuffle, 1999, which is both the starting point and the centre of the exhibition. Acquired by the Whitney Museum, Synapsis Shuffle is a series of 52 panels that function like a pack of cards. The panels are the same height but not the same width. They are intended to be shuffled into 12 sets made up of a different number of panels drawn at random by twelve different players. Each presentation of Synapsis Shuffle gives rise to an event that determines the direction in which the work will be hung and presented, so that the series will never be shown identically twice.

The exhibition “Rauschenberg: The Last Ten Years” allows the public to assess a body of work as fertile as any of the great human adventures of the New York School.

Le catalogue

Catalogue

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

The Ten Last Years

Exhibition curator(s):

Bernice Rose

The catalog

Catalogue

Robert Rauschenberg

From 6 June to 14 October 2002, the Musée Maillol will present a major exhibition devoted to recent works (between 1995 and 2002) by Robert Rauschenberg.

Robert Rauschenberg is considered to be one of the most important living American painters. Along with Jasper Johns, he represents one of the key poles of American painting. His abundant body of work remains extraordinary, mixing techniques: collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, engraving, and the presence of real objects or waste, on supports ranging from wood and chipped metal to paper.

Each of Rauschenberg’s paintings is a composite of artistic and non-artistic methods brought together as if by chance. The role of chance in Rauschenberg’s work can be traced back to his encounter with Marcel Duchamp in New York in the 1950s. Rauschenberg, like Jaspers Johns, became familiar with the revolutionary ideas of Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the ready-made that heralded Pop Art and Rauschenberg’s work is considered to be a bridge between the abstract expressionism of the New York School and Pop Art in the 1960s. The more the artist’s work evolved, the more diverse it became.

Perhaps the driving force behind Rauschenberg’s revival lies in the series Synapsis Shuffle, 1999, which is both the starting point and the centre of the exhibition. Acquired by the Whitney Museum, Synapsis Shuffle is a series of 52 panels that function like a pack of cards. The panels are the same height but not the same width. They are intended to be shuffled into 12 sets made up of a different number of panels drawn at random by twelve different players. Each presentation of Synapsis Shuffle gives rise to an event that determines the direction in which the work will be hung and presented, so that the series will never be shown identically twice.

The exhibition “Rauschenberg: The Last Ten Years” allows the public to assess a body of work as fertile as any of the great human adventures of the New York School.

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