Title
Air ration winter glut
1987
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1987
- Media categories
- Assemblage , Sculpture
- Materials used
- riveted metal parts
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 159.0 x 33.0 cm
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2011.78
- Copyright
- © Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Robert Rauschenberg
Works in the collection
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About
In the late 1980s, after touring extensively around the world, Rauschenberg returned to his studio on Captiva Island in Florida where he began making his ‘glut’ series. The inspiration for this series was the recession that hit Texas in the 1980s due to an oil glut on the global financial market. In 1985 Rauschenberg held a major exhibition in Houston and while driving to the museum noticed all the scrap metal and car wrecks littering the Texan roadsides. The works in the ‘glut’ series are made out of car parts, containers and road signs that are assembled or twisted into poetic and elegant shapes.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 12 Dec 1995–17 Mar 1996
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Nicholas Baume, From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Sydney, 1995, 53 (colour illus.), 86.
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, Sydney, Apr 2011, cover (colour illus.).
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Wayne Tunnicliffe', John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Robert Rauschenberg', pg.44-61, Sydney, 2011, 44 (colour illus.), 47, 58-59 (colour illus.). illustration on page 44 is a detail
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