Poster: Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram

This poster features an artwork from the Moderna Museet collection.

Monogram is one of the works Robert Rauschenberg called “combines,” a hybrid form of painting and sculpture. He found the angora goat in a store for second-hand office furniture. Rauschenberg often used stuffed animals in his combines, giving them a second life. In the collage-like painting under the goat, he has explored the relationship between the horizontal surface and the viewer's bird's-eye perspective. An astronaut looks up at the sky, and a funambulist walks on a slack rope across an abyss. A baby’s footprint seems to signify a human being’s first painterly gesture. The work was named after the way the horned billy goat and the car tyre intertwine, like the letters of a monogram.

© Robert Rauschenberg/Untitled Press, Inc./Bildupphovsrätt 2018. Moderna Museet, Sweden