Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville at The Edinburgh Festival 2011

artwork: Robert Rauschenberg - Cuban Mix (Mezcla Cubana) / ROCI Cuba, 1988. -  Photograph: Gagosian Gallery.


EDINBURGH.- The American artist Jasper Johns (B.1935) once said of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) that he had invented more than any artist since Picasso. Rauschenberg has altered the cultural landscape and continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary artists. Robert Rauschenbeg: Botanical Vaudeville is the first museum exhibition devoted to the artist to take place in the UK in thirty years – and it features thirty seven works made between 1982 and 1998. Rauschenberg died on May 12, 2008, on Captiva Island, Florida. He died of heart failure after a personal decision to go off life support.

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