Robert Rauschenberg
Port Arthur, Texas 1925 - Captiva Island, Florida 2008
Photo credit © Bill Cunningham, N.Y. Times, New York, 1992
The worn, discarded object is revived and yet transfigured through a process of descruction that only preserves fragments of its early existence.
Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, c.1954. Oil, pencil, crayon, paper, canvas, fabric, newspaper, photographs, wood, glass, mirror, tin, cork, and found painting with pair of painted leather shoes, dried grass, and Dominique hen on wood structure mounted on five casters, 219,08 x 97,79 x 66,04 cm. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1984. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Brian Forrest, Los Angeles
Robert Rauschenberg, Interview, 1955. Oil, found painting, found drawing, lace, wood, envelope, found letter, fabric, photographs, printed reproductions, toweling, and newspaper on wook structure with brick, string, fork, softball, nail, metal hinges,and wood door, 184,79 x 121,92 x 30,48 cm. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1985. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Gian Sinigaglia, Milano
Robert Rauschenberg, Factum I, 1957. Oil, ink, pencil, crayon, paper, fabric, newspaper, printed reproductions, and printed paper on canvas, frame: 169,86 x 101,79 x 9,84 cm, image: 158,75 x 92,71 cm. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1986. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Gian Sinigaglia, Milano
Robert Rauschenberg, Slow Fall, 1961. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1988. Installation Villa Panza, Varese. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Gian Sinigaglia, Milano