General information
An exhibition to commemorate the artist dead last May and that the 22nd of October would have been 84.
Robert Rauschenberg was one of the great protagonists of contemporary art since the second half of the eighteenth century who had a lot to do with Naples.
The Neapolitan exhibition pays homage to him with works between 1970 and 1976, a production that wasn't particularly the center of attention. Just back from Port and Munich the international project, edited by Mirta d' Argenzio, has been organized by the Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea of Port and coproduced by the Haus der Kunst and the Contemporary Museum of Art Donna Regina in Naples.
The cardboards- Rauschenberg creates this series between the 1971 and 1972 just using pieces of cardboard. After a period of big successes in New York, Rauschenberg was looking for a material which was easy to find in each part of the world. "I've never been in a place in which there weren't cardboard boxes... even in Amazon" said the artist in 1991.
The venetians - This works were realized between 1972 and 1973 in Captiva after a journey to Venice. For this series Rauschenberg used prevalently mass-production materials or domestic use waste: cloth, rope, wood, leather, stone, steel cables and wires, chairs, vases, cushions, an old bath, water and scrap irons.
Sor aqua - created in 1973, the work is inspired to the Song of Brother Sun by San Francesco d' Assisi. The four elements form two series of brothers: Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Brother fire and Sister Water. Brother Sun is the symbol of illumination through God.
Early Egyptians - The series was born between 1973 and 1974. The cardboard is once again protagonist, but with irony: the boxes are not flat or cut, but almost always used as structural elements of this big-sized works.
The Hoarfrosts - In 1974 and 1975 Rauschenberg made use of textiles instead of traditional cloth support. The title refers to Dante's Inferno which he had already illustrated in the fifties with a series of drawings.
The jammers - In 1975 Rauschenberg worked for a month in India in an ashram of Ahmedabad a textile production center. Once back to home he realized this series dedicated to colour. "I've never afforded myself the luxury of those bright colours until I've been in India and I saw people going around wrapped in those colours and drag them into the mud. I realized then that they are not so artificial"
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