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bouquets Robert Rauschenberg, paintings
1995-2001 |
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Page 68,
Paragraph 8 (Short Stories) is an evocation
of Ganymede, or of wine. A waiter, a garçon,
the grape, the nuances of red. Hydrangea
(Waterworks) is related to
Polanski’s Tess, in a way. Bags of blue, sacks of water, a
scale. Untitled
(Waterworks) is another kind of evocation,
traffic bars, driver, something about hydraulics.
There is a
curious representation here of an idea from Kienholz, his famous ideation of
a recumbent man. Rauschenberg withdraws from this, by dint of his nebulosity
in the application of these inks, the notion of a thing pictured (a chicken,
say) and its ideal, L’Absente... Many of these
works are very large, eight feet by five feet, and are shown to great
advantage in the Griffin’s vast, barn-like gallery, with enough space
around them to permit an august view. |
