Exhibitions
Transferring the contemporary to the American
The exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Real Time celebrates the centennial of the artist's birth at the NSU Art Museum in South Florida, the state Rauschenberg called home from the late 1970s until his death in 2008. The show features an extensive collection of his experimental prints from the 1970s and photographs from the early 1950s, on loan from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Films by Charles Atlas documenting his collaborations on set and costume design with choreographer Merce Cunningham are also being screened.
Born in 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg moved to New York after studying art at the experimental Black Mountain College. He quickly distinguished himself with a practice that blurred the boundaries between art and life, especially through his innovative Combines, works that fused painting, photography, and sculpture, incorporating everyday objects such as quilts, tires, ladders, and bottles. His expanded approach to art included experimentation with new technologies and collaborations with musicians and dancers.
Printing techniques were fundamental to his process, allowing him to incorporate images from the real world and mass culture. In the 1950s, he developed methods for transferring images from newspapers and magazines, and later adopted screen printing, influenced by artists such as Andy Warhol, thus expanding his ability to integrate photography into his work and reinforcing the link between art and current events.
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