This exhibition presents six important early works by Robert Rauschenberg from the Cy Twombly Foundation, organized during the centennial of the artist's birth. The works, selected from Twombly's personal collection, document key milestones of Rauschenberg's early development, including one of his earliest known surviving sculptures from 1950, the life-size photogram Untitled (1950), and key examples from the Black Painting, Elemental Sculpture, and Combine series. Together, they chart Rauschenberg's engagement with Marcel Duchamp's radical reconception of art making and his commitment to acting in the gap between art and life, while anticipating the incorporation of technology and performance into his practice.
