Robrt Rauschenberg - Dante's Inferno

A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London,
Robrt Rauschenberg - Dante's Inferno image
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This event ended on Saturday 28th of September 2013
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Free
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A & D Gallery
Chiltern Street, W1U 6NA
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Baker Street 0.22 miles

Rauchenberg's unique take on Dante's Inferno was the series of thirty-four drawings illustrating each canto of Dante's Inferno, the completion of which occupied him, at extended intervals, from mid-1958 well into 1960. It was through the Dante series that Rauschenberg fully exploited the process of photographic transfer, in this instance a direct and rather primitive use of solvent to dissolve the ink from a magazine or newspaper photograph to the paper underneath. What Rauschenberg lacked in deploying the solvent process was any freedom to manipulate the size of images and thus the relative scale between them; but he brilliantly overcame this shortcoming by exploiting the incongruities of size as a primary means for lending visual force to the terrifying verbal figures and vertiginous narrative of the poem.

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