Coastal Draft (Hoarfrost)
Robert Rauschenberg American
Not on view
A man playing pool, a freeway from above, an octopus’s tentacles—what do these images have in common? Encouraged by his astrologer to live closer to water, Rauschenberg abandoned New York and relocated to Captiva, Florida, in 1970. The new location, coupled with the artist’s increased travel abroad, inaugurated a new experimentalism in his work that was grounded in unusual materials like cardboard as well as the silk and linen used here. Pictures transferred from newspapers and encyclopedias hover and blur as if printed upon smoke or an icy frost (an idea evoked by the series title, Hoarfrost); while humble currents of air, like those occasioned by bodies as they pass, continue to animate the work.
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