Duration: MAY 21,
2017-SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
In 1959,
Robert Rauschenberg wrote, “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can
be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” His work in this gap
shaped artistic practice for decades to come.
The early
1950s, when Rauschenberg (1925–2008) launched his career, was the heyday of the
heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged
this tradition with an egalitarian approach to materials, bringing the stuff of
the everyday world into his art. Working alone and in collaboration with
artists, dancers, musicians, and writers, he invented new, interdisciplinary
modes of artistic practice that helped set the course for art of the present
day. The ethos that permeates Rauschenberg’s work—openness, commitment to
dialogue and collaboration, and global curiosity—makes him, now more than ever,
a touchstone for our troubled times.
Robert
Rauschenberg: Among Friends, the first 21st-century retrospective of the
artist, presents work from six decades of his widely celebrated career in fresh
ways, bringing together over 250 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints,
photographs, and sound and video recordings. Acclaimed artist and filmmaker
Charles Atlas is collaborating on the exhibition’s design to foreground
Rauschenberg’s work with dance and performance. MoMA’s presentation is
structured as an “open monograph”—as other artists came into Rauschenberg’s
creative life, they come into the exhibition, mapping the exchange of ideas.
These figures include John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Sari Dienes, Jasper Johns,
Billy Klüver, Yvonne Rainer, Paul Taylor, David Tudor, Cy Twombly, Susan Weil,
and many others.
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