Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others
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‘Jasper and I used to start each day by having to move out from Abstract expressionism. We were the only people who were not intoxicated with [them].’
In the early 1950s, at the height of the Abstract expressionist movement, a new avant-garde began to emerge from a relationship between two young artists. From their run-down New York studios, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns began a private creative dialogue that introduced everyday signs, objects, and media into their work, collapsing the distinction between art and life. While their relationship would end after seven years, their art would continue to radiate the new ideas of their creative exchange.
This exhibition will draw upon the National Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler Collection of prints with works by both artists produced between 1967–1973, and holdings of key works by their predecessors and contemporaries.
Curator: David Greenhalgh, Kenneth E Tyler Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings.
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Jasper Johns, Gemini G.E.L., Figure 1; from Color numeral series, 1969, colour lithograph printed from one stone and two aluminium plates, 69.6 h cm, 55.6 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 1973. © Jasper Johns. VAGA/Copyright Agency.
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Jasper Johns, The critic smiles 1969, from Lead reliefs series, sheet lead relief, tin relief, gold casting, 58.6 x 43.2 cm, published by Gemini Graphic Editions Limited, Los Angeles. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973. © Jasper Johns / Copyright Agency, 2022
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Robert Rauschenberg, Booster 1967 from Booster and 7 studies series, colour lithograph, screenprint, 183 x 89 cm, published by Gemini Graphic Editions Limited, Los Angeles. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973. © Robert Rauschenberg / Copyright Agency, 2022
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Robert Rauschenberg, Gemini G.E.L., Publicon - Station IV, 1978, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 1979. © Robert Rauschenberg. VAGA/Copyright Agency.
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Robert Rauschenberg, Gemini G.E.L., Test stone #5A; from Booster and 7 studies, 1967, lithograph, printed in three colours, 62 h cm, 73 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 1973. © Robert Rauschenberg. VAGA/Copyright Agency.
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Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in Johns’s Pearl Street studio, New York, NY, United States, 1954, gelatin silver print, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Image courtesy Robert Rauschenberg Foundation © photographer, Rachel Rosenthal
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Malcolm Lubliner, Jasper Johns instructing Kenneth Tyler regarding the positioning of the newspaper monotype on the inked 'Fragment – according to what - bent blue' stone, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1971 1971, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
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Malcolm Lubliner, Jasper Johns at Gemini GEL, 1968 1968, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
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Malcolm Lubliner, Robert Rauschenberg in the print workshop at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1969 1969, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
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Malcolm Lubliner, Kenneth Tyler, Robert Rauschenberg and Jeff Wasserman examining screen printing on 'Cardbird door' element from the 'Cardbird' collage series in the multiple studio, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1971, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra © photographer, Malcolm Lubliner
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(from left) Robert Rauschenberg, Gemini G.E.L. Publicon - Station IV , 1978 and Publicon - Station I 1978, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra © Robert Rauschenberg/Copyright Agency, 2022, © Gemini Ltd/Kenneth E. Tyler
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Installation view, Rauschenberg & Johns: significant others, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2022
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Robert Rauschenberg, Gemini G.E.L., Cardbird door; from Cardbird, 1971, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1975 © Robert Rauschenberg. VAGA/Copyright Agency
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Jasper Johns, Gemini G.E.L. Color numeral series, 1968, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Jasper Johns/Copyright Agency, 2022, © Gemini Ltd/Kenneth E. Tyler
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Installation view, Rauschenberg & Johns: significant others, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2022
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Curator David Greenhalgh with Robert Rauschenberg, Gemini G.E.L. Kenneth Tyler Booster; from Booster and 7 studies, 1967, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Robert Rauschenberg/Copyright Agency, 2022, © Gemini Ltd/Kenneth E. Tyler
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Curator David Greenhalgh, with Robert Rauschenber Multiples Inc. Castelli Graphics Star quarters, 1971, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Robert Rauschenberg/Copyright Agency, 2022 © 2022 Multiples Inc. © Castelli Graphics
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