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Robert Rauschenberg: Combines
December 20, 2005–April 2, 2006
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the highly inventive body of work that Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) terms "combines." Among the 67 works in the show are a number that have not been shown publicly before, as well as some of the artist's best-known objects, such as Canyon and Monogram. With these mixed-media works of art, Rauschenberg reinvented collage, changing it from a medium that presses commonplace materials to serve illusion into something very different: a process that undermines both illusion and the idea that a work of art has a unitary meaning. Appearing as either wall-hung works or as freestanding objects, the combines are composed as syncopated grids that draw on materials from everyday life and the history of art.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Jane and Robert Carroll and the Wasserstein family.
Corporate support has been provided by Merrill Lynch.
The exhibition was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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