Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Robert Rauschenberg - e-flux

Robert Rauschenberg poses outside of the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Photo: EFE/Luis Tejido.(web image)

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VENICE.- A year after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, celebrates the memory of this great artist with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. Comprised of approximately forty works, this exhibition, on view May 30 through September 20, 2009, presents a little known body of Rauschenberg’s work in metal drawn from the holdings of the Rauschenberg Estate, with additional loans from institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad. Always one to recycle, Rauschenberg found new uses for what others tossed aside, reinvigorating detritus with a revealing second life. Faced with disparate objects littering his studio, he applied a direct approach to the Gluts (1986–89 and 1991–95), his final series of sculpture. For nearly a decade, Rauschenberg frequented the Gulf Iron and Metal Junkyard outside Fort Myers, Florida, near his home, gathering metal parts from traffic signs, exhaust pipes, radiator grills, metal awnings, and so on, which he incorporated into these poetic, humorous assemblages, where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. --ArtDaily.org

Robert Rauschenberg Greek Toy Glut (Neapolitan), 1987Assembled metal 207 x 254 x 39.4 cm Estate of Robert Rauschenberg © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg / licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Peggy Guggenheim Collection (web image)

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: GLUTS May 30 - September 20, 2009 Peggy Guggenheim Collection 701 Dorsoduro 30123 Venice ITALY phone +39 041 2405411f ax +39 041 5206885 email http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@guggenheim-venice.ithttp://www.guggenheim-venice.it/