Lot no. 536
Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Robert Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI). 1991. colour silkscreen on mirror cardboard. 67 x 99.4 cm. - Slightly bumped in a few places in the margins and corners, superficial trace of printing in two places in the lower margin, slight trace of handling in the upper left, verso image with slight impression due to the technique, good overall. Quite excellent, high-contrast and multi-layered impression of the large-format sheet, with metallic surface design. Gundel 39.- With the artist's typographical copyright notice and edition details. - Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc, West Islip, New York. - Ed. by National Art Gallery, Washington D.C. - Published on the occasion of the project "Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange" at the National Art Gallery. - In the 1970s and 1980s, Rauschenberg participated in numerous international projects on the theme of art as social change, which culminated in his "Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange", or ROCI for short, between 1984 and 1991. Committed to human rights and freedom of artistic expression, he travelled to countries where the latter was often suppressed. His aim is to stimulate dialogue through art. He travelled to 10 countries, including Mexico, China, Japan, the USSR and Germany, before his final stop at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Colour silk-screen on foil card. - Slightly bumped in margins and corners at few spots, two superficial pressure marks in lower margin, slight handling trace at upper left, verso depiction slightly seeping through from onto recto due to technique, all in all good. Very superb, contrast-rich and highly-nuanced impression of the large, format-filling depiction, with metallic-like surface. - With typographical artist's copyright note as well as edition information. - Print by Universat Limited Art Editions, Inc., West Islip, New York. - Publ. by National Art Gallery, Washington D.C. - On the occasion of the project 'Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange' at the National Art Gallery. - In the 1970s and 1980s, Rauschenberg took part in numerous international projects on the theme of art as social change which culminated in his 'Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange', ROCI, between 1984 and 1991. Committed to human rights and freedom of artistic expression, he travelled to countries where the latter one was often suppressed. His aim is to stimulate dialogue through art. He has travelled to 10 countries, including Mexico, China, Japan, the USSR and Germany before his final stop at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. 300
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07/05/2025
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