2-80-E-14A (NYC)
From the series: In and Out City Limits: New York/Boston, Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg
2-80-E-14A (NYC) From the series: In and Out City Limits: New York/Boston
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Robert Rauschenberg

2-80-E-14A (NYC) From the series: In and Out City Limits: New York/Boston, 1980


Blatt
40.6 x 50.8 cm
Physical Description
Silver gelatin print on on baryta paper
Inventory Number
DZF 9
Acquisition
Collection DZ BANK at the Städel Museum
Status
On display, lower level, Contemporary Art, room 9

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Even in the days when the triumph of strongly contrasting colours was being celebrated with his help through Pop Art, Robert Rauschenberg was cutting swathes of destruction in painting. He occupied it violently with traces of the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, while also hinting at future crises. The Texan artist captured the rifts in urban structures with his camera in order to exploit them for the wild material collages of the 'Combine Paintings'. His series 'In + Out of City Limits' (1980/81) already focuses on the smoke of death surrounding the Twin Towers. However, the images prevent the viewer from looking into dilapidated houses, and beneath the Union Jack raised by his colleague Jasper Johns in honour of painting, Rauschenberg points out the one-way street leading to the next crash with the comment "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". The artist transported the signs of downfall he had photographed on the facades of buildings back to his studio, where he transformed them into totem-like emblems of decline, either as subjects in paintings created in the style of Abstract Expressionism or sculpturally after the example of German Dadaists (Kurt Schwitters).

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2-80-E-14A (NYC) From the series: In and Out City Limits: New York/Boston (Original Title)
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Serial Number / Edition
30 / 54
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Silver gelatin print on on baryta paper
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Collection
Creditline
Sammlung der DZ BANK im Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Picture Copyright
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Acquisition
Collection DZ BANK at the Städel Museum

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13.03.2024