Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Susan Davidson and David White.

Artist:
Robert Rauschenberg.

Exhibition description:
A year after the death of Robert Rauschenberg (May 12, 2008) the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrated the memory of this artist with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. Comprised of approximately forty works, the exhibition presented a little known body of Rauschenberg’s work in metal. This series of works were inspired by Rauschenberg’s visit to Houston in the mid 1980s. Taking note of the economic devastation of a region in the throes of a recession due to a glut in the oil market, Rauschenberg collected gas-station signs and deteriorated automotive and industrial parts which littered the landscape. He transformed the scrap-metal detritus into wall reliefs and freestanding sculptures that recalled his earlier Combines. The works for the exhibition were drawn from the holdings of the Rauschenberg Estate, with additional loans from institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad.

Catalogue:
Davidson, Susan and White, David. Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2009.

Two catalogues, in English and Italian. Catalogues include preface by Richard Armstrong (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum) and Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), acknowledgments by Susan Davidson (Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) and David White (Curator, Robert Rauschenberg Estate) and essays by Susan Davidson, Mimi Thompson and Trisha Brown. Catalogues contain exhibition plates and an exhibition history.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2009 .02 (English), GUGG PGC 2009 .01 (Italian).