Robert Rauschenberg, Sense títol, 1972
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. © Robert Rauschenberg, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2021.
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Sense títol, 1972
Untitled, 1972
Assamblage,
133 x 272 x 28 cm
A member of the Beat Generation, in the 1950s Rauschenberg became interested in collage and assemblage, which he discovered together with Cy Twombly and guided by an interest in Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell. After experimenting with their many possibilities, in the seventies he began to incorporate simple materials such as cardboard, packing tape and rubber. With its deliberately ‘poor’ apperarance, his work Untitled escapes any formal rhetoric. The technical procedure of assemblage not only serves to put different materials in dialogue, but also proposes a visual vindication of the objects. The residual aesthetic of this work contains a direct critique of capitalism and its circular system of production-consumption-rejection.
Technical details
- Original title:
- Sense títol
- Registration number:
- 0039
- Artist:
- Rauschenberg, Robert
- Date created:
- 1972
- Date acquired:
- 1988
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
- Object type:
- Assamblage
- Media:
- Assamblage on wood
- Dimensions:
- 133 x 272 x 28 cm (height x width x depth)
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
- Copyright:
- © Robert Rauschenberg, VEGAP, Barcelona
- It has accessibility resources:
- Yes
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