ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: GLUTS
30 May – 20 September 2009
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice



Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts will feature a selected group of approximately forty sculptures drawn from the holdings of institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad. After breaking boundaries with his celebrated Combines, in the late 1950s, his explorations of technology-based art that made viewers active participants in the 1960s, and his focus on natural-fiber materials of paper, cardboard, and fabric throughout the 1970s, Rauschenberg’s artistic attention in the 1980s turned toward an exploration of the visual properties of metal. Assembling found metal objects such as gas-station signs, deteriorated automotive and industrial parts littering the landscape, he transformed the scrap-metal detritus into wall reliefs and freestanding sculptures that recalled his earlier Combines. Thus he created the Gluts, sculptural works begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995. Visitors can enjoy free guided visits of the temporary exhibitions, daily at 3:30 p.m.



In 1964 Rauschenberg was awarded the Grand Prix for Painting at the
32nd Venice Biennale—an event that established his reputation
internationally. By winning the Grand Prix at the age of 38,
Rauschenberg interrupted the post-war sequence of prizes awarded to
elderly European masters of the pre-war. In 1975 Rauschenberg
returned to Venice for a month-long show in Cà Pesaro, the city's
modern art museum. In 1996 he was invited to exhibit three bodies of
work on the Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, including a
collaboration with Darryl Pottorf. Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts,
thirteen years on, is therefore the artist's fourth show in this
city, and the first posthumous homage.


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