Robert Rauschenberg

(United States of America 22 Oct 1925–12 May 2008)

Title

Zurich pool glut

Year

1988

Media categories

Assemblage, Sculpture

Materials used

assembled metal parts

Dimensions

72.5 x 48.0 x 32.0cm

Credit

John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Accession number

L2012.17

Copyright

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)

M. Knoedler and Co, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: works 1989, 1989, 15 (colour illus.). cat.no.4

Nicholas Baume and Museum of Contemporary Art, From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection 1995, 1995, 53 (colour illus.), 86.

Wayne Tunnicliffe', John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Robert Rauschenberg', pg.44-61, Sydney, 2011, 60 (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (3)

Rauschenberg - photographs and gluts, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, 15 Sep 1988–31 Oct 1988

Robert Rauschenberg: works, M. Knoedler and Co, New York, 01 Nov 1989–30 Nov 1989

From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 12 Dec 1995–17 Mar 1996