Bande de Sureté / Twin City / Nipples (Cardboard)
In late 1970 Rauschenberg moved from New York to Captiva, a small island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. This triggered a marked shift in his artistic practice as he began a series using only found corrugated boxes as a material. Referencing both Pop and Minimalism’s use of the box and the cube, these painting-sculpture hybrids also call attention to the global ubiquity of the cardboard container as a carrier of international commodities. Bande de Sureté / Twin City / Nipples (Cardboard) takes its title from the still-visible labels that once indicated their contents.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bande de Sureté / Twin City / Nipples (Cardboard)
- Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (American, Port Arthur, Texas 1925–2008 Captiva Island, Florida)
- Date: 1971
- Medium: Cardboard
- Dimensions: 101 × 134 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (256.5 × 341.6 × 34.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger, Bequest of Chester Dale, Gift of The A.L. Levine Family Foundation, Fletcher Fund, and Gift of The Glickstein Foundation, by exchange; Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift; Gifts of Mala Rubinstein Silson, Mrs. Edward Bruce, and Hyman N. Glickstein, by exchange; Harriett Ames Charitable Trust and Molly and Walter Bareiss Gifts; Gift of Mrs. Richard Rodgers, by exchange; and Funds from various donors, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.595a, b
- Rights and Reproduction: © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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