Catalog of an exhibition held at Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, April 8-July 9, 2022. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
This comprehensive exhibition brings together rarely seen works from two of Robert Rauschenberg's most innovative series. For a period of 15 years, Rauschenberg made several trips to Japan where he created ceramic artworks using a newly developed technique that combined ancient Japanese pottery traditions with modern innovations. The Japanese Clayworks (1982/1985) feature sculptural elements, photographic imagery of ancient and modern Japan as well as distinctive brushstrokes. His Japanese Recreational Clayworks (1982-83/1985) comprise prefabricated reproductions of historical Western artworks on ceramic panels, to which Rauschenberg added his own imagery of contemporary Japan from photographs he took across the country, along with gestural brushwork.
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