I went to Chelsea again today as I was in the neighborhood shooting pictures of peoples shoes and handbags for this Italian studio. It’s a mindless task, but it can be entertaining, and certainly keeps me busy which is a plus! All the galleries were closed (again) so I did some window peeking, and saw this interesting sculpture by Rauschenberg. I had seen his final show before he died last year, and was completely under-whelmed as I have been with most of his recent work. I’m only really interested in this work because of the subject matter.
It seems like in 1987 he did a few sculptures based on Tibet (and earlier some on China). they are works made from images he took on his ROCI trip to Tibet. “Rauschenberg officially announced his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI – pronounced “Rocky”), at the United Nations in 1983. It was a self-financed project that had as its mission the promotion of international peace and cultural exchange through collaborative art making. Under the auspices of ROCI, Rauschenberg visited and worked with artists in countries around the globe, using materials and skills found in each nation to create arworks that were donated to and exhibited in each host country.”
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