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giugno 23, 2023 - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Rarely seen works from a formative series to be exhibited at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
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Thaddaeus Ropac #parismarais presents a selection of key works on ceramic by #robertrauschenberg from the 1980s. Spanning works from the artist’s Japanese
Clayworks series (1982/1985), as well as a further group of ceramics made in 1989 as a continuation of this earlier series, the exhibition highlights a formative period in the artist’s career.
Over the course of 15 years, Rauschenberg made several trips to Japan, where he collaborated with the Otsuka Ohmi Ceramics Company (OOCC) in Shigaraki to create ceramic artworks using a newly developed technique that combined ancient Japanese pottery traditions with modern innovations. He worked with local chemists to produce glazes that allowed him to silkscreen his own photographs onto transfer sheets, which were then removed from their
backing, affixed to the surface of ceramic panels, and fired in the kiln. Japanese Clayworks is the first series of works that Rauschenberg made at the OOCC.
The Japanese Clayworks on view in the exhibition incorporate silkscreened photographs, both black-and-white and colour, taken by Rauschenberg throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s across North and South America and Asia. Reprising important motifs from across his practice, such as wheels and modes of transportation, garden decorations that recall Classical sculpture, and landscapes that are alternately idyllic and strewn with industrial or urban debris, the artist’s specific arrangements of these diverse images give the works a
potency that goes beyond that of the individual images themselves, encouraging viewers to attempt to decipher them, while ultimately refusing any single interpretative meaning.
Travel, always accompanied by exploration of local materials and collaboration with local artisans, was a fundamental part of Rauschenberg’s artistic practice.
Through his work, he searched for how he, as an artist, could respond to pressing political, environmental and social challenges, contribute to peace and cross-cultural understanding and produce universally meaningful images in an increasingly global world. His collaboration with the OOCC provided a model for the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI): a project realised in ten countries, including Japan, through which, beginning in 1984, the artist worked to encourage international dialogue through artistic collaboration.
Another of Rauschenberg’s works on ceramic is part of the exhibition L’Argent dans l’art, on view at the Monnaie de Paris until 24 September 2023. Made at the OOCC during the same period in which the artist was making the Japanese Clayworks presented at #thaddaeusropacparis Marais, this 1983 work belongs to his series of Japanese Recreational Clayworks, which was inspired by the reproductions of historical Western artworks on ceramic panels that the OOCC specialised in manufacturing. In the work on view at the Monnaie de Paris, Rauschenberg combined well-known 19th-century oil paintings by Edgar Degas and Jean-François Millet, before adding his own painterly interventions in order to invite new interpretations of the original artworks.
Japanese Clayworks at #thaddaeusropacparis Marais is presented in cooperation with the #robertrauschenberg Foundation. Thaddaeus Ropac gallery has been a partner of the #robertrauschenberg Foundation since April 2015 and the #partnership has resulted in a series of exhibitions, focusing on some of the artist’s most innovative and under-recognised series of the 1970s, 1980s and early
1990s, including his Night Shades, Phantoms, Borealis, Salvage paintings and Spreads.
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