Skip to main content
Browse by:
GROUP

Last Chance to View 'Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting' Exhibition at the Nasher Museum

Event Image
Sunday, January 11, 2015
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Nasher Museum presents Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting, an ambitious exhibition originating at Duke in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York City. The exhibition offers a fresh look at 34 of Rauschenberg's works spanning six decades of his career, art that he reserved in his own collection. Two gallery pavilions will feature Rauschenberg together with work from the Nasher Museum's permanent collection, with special emphasis on its significant group of Russian nonconformist and conceptual art of the 1980s and 1990s, on view for the first time. In addition, the exhibition includes the Nasher's newly acquired collection of works by Bruce Conner, putting Rauschenberg's art in conversation with 25 of Conner's works in a section titled Bruce Conner One Man Show (with Rauschenberg). Underscoring how Rauschenberg fostered connections, the exhibition highlights Rauschenberg in an interchange with the unique visual vocabularies of all the artists in the show. "We are thrilled to present many rarely viewed works by Rauschenberg and to stage his great artistic achievements in a new context with new connections," said curator Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke. "This exhibition is about new eyes on Rauschenberg and his dialogue with other artists of his time." An exhibition catalogue, featuring essays by Stiles and her students, is funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Type: EXHIBIT and STUDENT
Contact: Wendy Hower Livingston