Robert Rauschenberg

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There's a new Rauschenberg show starting at the Waddington Galleries on Cork Street (round back of the Royal Academy) on Thursday, running till July 6th. It's only open from 10-5.30, Mon-Fri and 10.30-1.30 on Saturdays. What with a job and the World Cup and probably moving house late June or early July, it's not going to be easy to fit in. However, I have booked holidays to watch England next Friday and the Wednesday after, and thought I might go along afterwards. Does anyone else fancy it? I always prefer going to such things with people, so I can get them to explain to me why I love his work so much* (I think he's my favourite living artist). I don't know much about the show other than it's ten large collages.

*not compulsory

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not to derail your thread so soon, but the question makes me wonder where is Suzy?

― Sean, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes Suzy and Ed would be perfect for this assignment.

They are moving and having trouble with the machine of late though
Martin- Rauschenberg is also in the Top Ten Living Artists, and I am curious on wehter they are Collages or Prints ?

― anthony, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if it's not whole goats i'm not interested

― mark s, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Collages, according to the paper Anthony. Obviously I will be able to report further after going along.

I think if he had included any whole goats then a) we'd accuse him of just rerunning old ideas OR having an obsession with goats, probably both, and b) it would probably not be called a collage. Unless he'd done a really good job of flattening it before sticking it on, possibly. No tyres either, unless I miss my guess.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The goat according to a critic I read( Robert Hughes?) was a symbol for sodomy, the rutting pan and the tight black hole.

Rauschenbergs "collages" are interesting because they look like collages but are smoothed and constructed arround slikscreens and paint

As well I thought he was working on a massive installation somewhere in the midwest, what ever happened to that ?

― anthony, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rauschenberg asked Hughes why his sexual attraction to tyres hadn't led to him getting run over more often.

Yeah, I know about his techniques. All I know at this time is what the paper said. I know I'll go along to see anything by Rauschenberg. It would almost be a surprise if there were no silkscreen element to this, but the write-up was tiny - maybe there will be some reviews when it opens. Hard to imagine that RR doesn't warrant a large feature, I would have thought.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

He should be given a sainthood. Hughes was a bit of a pervert wasnt he?

― anthony, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.demon.co.uk/momus/momusrauschenberg.jpeg

― Momus, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"momus, he was RIGHT THERE and you didn't kill him. i am very disappointed in you"

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, you're getting me mixed up with Andrew Cunanan. He was much better looking.

― Momus, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

By the way, Rauschenberg started the conversation, not me.

Rauschenberg: Momus, I've got all your albums, it's such a thrill to finally meet you in the flesh...

Okay, that's a lie. What he actually said was 'I've been rather intrigued by this fur waistcoat you're wearing!' Then we had a short conversation about secondhand clothes shopping, which I don't think is one of his big hobbies.

Everyone else at the opening (Washington DC, January 2001) was a 'suit' or some sort of DC mover and shaker.

― Momus, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a great book about him & Jasper Johns called "Off The Wall" by Calvin Tompkins (sp?) - if you see it used, pick it up. I'm pretty sure it's out of print. I read it years ago but I remember loving it - pretty juicy read too, almost all entertaining stories & very little theory.

― fritz, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Johns was in Warhols Studio just as he was starting his first series of famous people silk screens. He looked at the canvases and was bored, but then saw a stack of photogrpahs of naked men. So he spent 5 or 10 minutes on the "masterpeices" and almost an hour on the "ephemera"

― anthony, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, momus i thought all your pics with famous ppl hapenned with you saying OH MAN IM A HUGE FAN! CAN I TAKE A PICTURE PLEEZ!

In the pure Alexandro Pires at Cannes Festival way

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

Hey now, has anyone seen the Combines show at the Met? I thought it was great.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw it in Ft Worth, really liked it. It was my first time seeing Rauschenberg stuff in person, so I don't have too much to say about it except that I was surprised at how varied his work was.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It was cool to see work that was much more personal than the prints he's more famous for, though you can occasionally see mass culture stuff peeking out that foreshadows his future work. Lots of *rural* fabrics and materials -- some of it was almost like folk art. Lots of visual *jokes* and *puns* -- there was one in the center of the room that had an old photograph of a man standing very upright in an all white suit, and right adjacent to him was a white column or pillar of equal size -- like he's a "pillar" of society.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

still need to check it out, thanks for the reminder.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

RIP

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought he was dead! RIP RR

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

rip homie

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh fuck. RIP.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP. That is sad. RR's work was so great. I want to the "Combines" show and was really slapped in the face.

As to the way his death is being reported, can I just say that all this tip-toeing around his sexuality in 2008 is really lame and just comes off like de facto homophobia?

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP

― Michael White, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP! I liked his stuff! Peace!

― jel --, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link

!!!

Wow, that's certainly something. Certainly has had an impact on me, from when I started getting interested in art in my mid-teens through to present. I'm sure he'll certainly remain one of the most interesting and intelligent artists for me, not to mention one who had a more or less immeasurable influence on myself and my ideas about art.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2490182734_7cdb48b1f0_o.jpg

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP
Love his work, loved seeing some of it in person at SFMOMA.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link

wow, r.i.p. i really dig rauschenberg. my mom and i went to that combines show a few years ago and we were both pretty struck by the whole thing.

who's that leave from his generation, american-master wise? just johns?

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP

― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link

I loved his stuff. I loved the Synapsis Shuffle exhibition at the Whitney in 2000.

I think he's one of those artists (like Pollack, I guess) where a lot of people think "hey, I could do that." But, guy, you sure couldn't. r.i.p.

― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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