Robert Rauschenberg
(United States of America 1925–2008)
- Title
- Air ration winter glut
- Year
- 1987
- Media categories
- Assemblage, Sculpture
- Materials used
- riveted metal parts
- Dimensions
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120.0 x 159.0 x 33.0cm
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Accession number
- L2011.78
- Copyright
- © Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In the late 1980s, after touring extensively around the world, Rauschenberg returned to his studio on Captiva Island in Florida where he began making his ‘glut’ series. The inspiration for this series was the recession that hit Texas in the 1980s due to an oil glut on the global financial market. In 1985 Rauschenberg held a major exhibition in Houston and while driving to the museum noticed all the scrap metal and car wrecks littering the Texan roadsides. The works in the ‘glut’ series are made out of car parts, containers and road signs that are assembled or twisted into poetic and elegant shapes.
- Bibliography (3)
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Wayne Tunnicliffe (New Zealand; Australia) (Editor), John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011, 44 (colour illus.), 47, 58-59 (colour illus.). illustration on page 44 is a detail
Look Apr 2011, Apr 2011, cover (colour illus.).
Nicholas Baume (Australia) (Author), Museum of Contemporary Art (Australia, estab. 1989), From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, 1995, 53 (colour illus.), 86.
- Exhibition history (1)
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From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 Dec 1995–17 Mar 1996.
