On the occasion of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's presentation of Rauschenberg's Cardboards series and
Gluts series, VernissageTV met with the Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Christy MacLear, who tells us more about the Foundation's history, mission, grants and programs, and future presentations and activities.
The exhibition represents the richness of Rauschenberg's late career through
the Gluts series (1986 — 89, 1991 — 94), metal sculptures inspired by the contemporary economy of the artist's native Texas.
On
the Gluts series, Susan Davidson, Senior Curator for Collections & Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum New York, relates that Rauschenberg's artistic attention in the 1980s turned toward an exploration of the visual properties of metal.
The Gluts series was inspired by a visit to Houston, when the Texas economy was suffering a receccsion due to a surplus of supply (glut) in the oil market.
The presentation at Robert Rauschenberg's former studio in Manhattan had its focus on two fascinating aspects of Rauschenberg's oeuvre: the Cardboards series and
the Gluts series.
Rauschenberg in a junkyard looking for source material for
his Gluts series, Naples, Italy, December 1986.
Not exact matches
Apple has unveiled the first teaser for Carpool Karaoke: The
Series, featuring original host James Corden alongside a
glut of huge celebs including Will Smith, John Legend, and Ariana Grande.
Fresh off the
glut of NBC news earlier today, CBS has announced a few
series orders.
Problematic characterisation, strange, unengaging storylines and a
glut of superheroes / villains vastly more interesting than Batman come together in a finished product that never quite does the
series justice.
While adaptations like «Silent Hill» and the «Resident Evil»
series have their adamant defenders, and with the Angelina Jolie - starring «Tomb Raider» films faring pretty well at the box office in their day, there's also a
glut of terrible titles like «Doom,» «Street Fighter,» and most of Uwe Boll's filmography.
With the overnight success of
series like The Twilight Saga and the Hunger Games trilogy, coupled with indie author breakout stars like Amanda Hocking, the sales channels quickly filled up with a
glut of traditionally published and self - published YA content (bonus points if there was a vampire involved).
Smashwords CEO Mark Coker recently released the 2018 updated edition of his Smashwords Book Marketing Guide, in which his advice to authors still includes a strategy of pricing at least one book as free, and if you have a
series, price the first book as free, despite his gloomy 2018 Publishing Predictions blog post, in which he predicted an increased
glut of high - quality, low cost eBooks, and the demise of independent publishing by a rising, Amazon - dependent model.
Skipping over all this, MoMA picks up the story in 1986, with the «
Glut»
series of sculptures, made primarily from scrap metal — road signs in particular.
Summer Knight
Glut, a 1987 excerpt from this
series, marks the effect of a surplus of a natural resource by recombining detritus from its manifestation as consumer product: It is made of gas stations.
The
series» title takes its name from the economic recession that Houston experienced during a «
glut» (or surplus of supply) in the oil market during the 1980s.
Rauschenberg's metal
Gluts comprise a
series he worked on intermittently between 1986 and» 94.
The pieces that comprise Works on Metal come from Rauschenberg's thematic
series Gluts, Urban Bourbon, Borealis, Night Shade, and Phantom.
The late works, especially the
Gluts, a
series of sculptures made out of crushed and twisted bits of signage, some produced when he was in his seventies, are as fierce and fiercely American as anything that precedes them.
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.
A generation after leading scientists and experts warned the world of an escalating
series of horrendous famines, the crop
gluts continue.