Past Exhibition

Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange

The image displays an arrangement of rectangular and square shapes layered over each other to create an abstract composition. The shapes feature grids, textured patterns, and overlaid images of various objects. The color palette includes yellows, browns, muted greens, and blues, adding a vintage, collage-like feel. Dots and swirls are scattered throughout, suggesting splashes or faded brushstrokes and enhancing the abstract qualities of the composition.
Robert Rauschenberg, Copperhead Grande/ROCI CHILE, 1985, acrylic and tarnishes on copper, Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 1991.76.2

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    East Building, Ground Floor and Concourse
The image displays an arrangement of rectangular and square shapes layered over each other to create an abstract composition. The shapes feature grids, textured patterns, and overlaid images of various objects. The color palette includes yellows, browns, muted greens, and blues, adding a vintage, collage-like feel. Dots and swirls are scattered throughout, suggesting splashes or faded brushstrokes and enhancing the abstract qualities of the composition.
Robert Rauschenberg, Copperhead Grande/ROCI CHILE, 1985, acrylic and tarnishes on copper, Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 1991.76.2

Overview: 60 paintings, 21 sculptures, 60 photographs, 30 graphic works, and 15 video monitors by Robert Rauschenberg were on loan as part of the international tour of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI), begun in 1985. The ROCI was organized to promote world peace and understanding.

Rauschenberg took photographs while his staff shot videotapes to record what the artist saw and experienced at each exhibition location. As the traveling exhibition evolved over a 6-year period, Rauschenberg created works in each host country to include in the exhibitions. Rauschenberg donated a work of art to each country, and exhibition catalogues included contributions by local poets, writers, or journalists.

Organization: Donald Saff served as artistic director of ROCI. Jack Cowart, curator of 20th-century art, selected the works for the National Gallery's ROCI exhibition, the only United States venue. Robert Rauschenberg designed the National Gallery's exhibition.

Attendance: 414,717

Catalog: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, by Rosetta Brooks et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991.

Other Venues:

  • Mexico
  • Chile
  • Venezuela
  • China
  • Tibet
  • Japan
  • Cuba
  • USSR
  • Germany
  • Malaysia

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