Robert Rauschenberg Foundation donates three Gluts sculptures to the Artist Rooms collection

Souvenirs Without Nostalgia.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to the Artist Rooms collection, which is jointly managed by the London-based Tate group and National Galleries Scotland.

Rauschenberg is known above all for his «Combines» of the post-war years, but all three donated works belong to the series of the 1980s called Gluts, literally «surfeit, satiety». The series was a statement about excess. Like the «Combines», these sculptures are assembled from ready-made materials taken from everyday life, mostly found pieces of metal.

Rauschenberg regarded the Gluts as a commentary on excess: he made them while the USA was living through an oil glut, and saw in this refuse a sign of social decay.

The three donated sculptures, G-I Glut of 1986, Rasputin's Revenge Early Winter Glut of 1987 and Mobile Cluster Glut of 1987, will go on show in September at Tate Modern, in a room of 25 works by Rauschenberg.

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