Monday 12 September 2011

Robert Rauschenberg's Riding Bikes

This sculpture can be found in the Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin, Germany.  It went up in 1998 and contains two recycled bikes lit with neon lighting.  Rauschenberg pioneered a style of art called 'combines' as long ago as the early 50's through which he desired the transformation of reality into art with the least wastage possible.

“I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out of the real world.” Robert Rauschenberg.


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