Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others

In the early 1950s, at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a new avant-garde emerged from a relationship between two young artists: Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Drawn from the National Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler Collection, Significant Others brings together print and multimedia works created by both artists between 1968 and 1973 and highlights how they expanded on ideas developed through their private, creative discourse – introducing everyday signs, objects, and media into their work, collapsing the distinction between art and life, and questioning ideas of authorship, value and communication.

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 × 55.6cm. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973. © Jasper Johns. VAGA/Copyright Agency. Courtesy the artist, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra and Geelong Gallery, Victoria

Geelong Gallery
16 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
Victoria

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